I'd like to use mercurial on a Windows server. Since I want to pull and push via http, hg serve seems the easiest solution. It works fine, but I have restart it after each reboot, so I need it as a Windows service. Installing it manually with sc create ... didn't work, it created a service that throws an error when I attempt to start it. I found some references to this problem
https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/issue/1245/configure-hg-serve-to-run-as-a-windows-service-from
https://bitbucket.org/andrearicossa/hgservice
but they are poorly documented if at all. (Of course, I could install a web server and use hgweb, but it seems even more complicated.) Do you have any experience how to set up easily hg serve ... <many args> as a Windows service?
UPDATE:
Thanks for the different approaches. We stayed with hg serve, the windows-guy at our company managed to install it as a not-quite-proper service.
Using a web server such as apache/lighttpd/iis gives a lot of features such as authentication or HTTPS support. But 'hg serve' is a simple and fast solution. Furthermore, 'hg serve' can serve multiple repositories. But hg serve cannot itself be run as a Windows service because it cannot respond to the Windows control commands. So using HgService is a good solution to make 'hg serve' a real Windows service.
Here is an example of my configuration. I followed following steps:
Install TortoiseHG
Install HgService
Create "C:\Repositories" folder and put needed repos into it.
Create "C:\Repositories\hgweb.config" with following contents:
[paths]
/ = C:\Repositories\*
[web]
style = monoblue
Modify HgService.exe.config in C:\Program Files\Mercurial\HgService
<add key="CommandLine" value="hg.exe"/>
<add key="CommandLineArguments" value="serve --prefix=/hg --address 0.0.0.0 --port 80 --web-conf c:\Repositories\hgweb.config -A access.log -E error.log" />
Start the service
Hope this sequence of action will be helpful to you also.
Or you could use the SCM-Manager
You should check out Jerremy Skinner his blogpost on this subject. He explains how you can host Mercurial repositories on IIS7 and use some nice url-routing.
I did it on my machine and it works like a charm. It takes some configuration, but it's worth it.
1 error in his post I noticed was that he's writing about a hgwebdir.cgi, but I couldn't find that one. I did find a hgweb.cgi, so did the copy-pasting with this file.
An Apache-based alternative: HgServe - Mercurial Repository Server for Windows on Apache
hg serve works fine with NSSM !
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I'm quite new to laravel and the concept of CI/CD. But I have invested the last 24 hours to get something up and running. Actually I'm using gitlab.com as repo. There I have configured the CI/CD functionality.
The deployments should be done to SRV1 which has configured its corresponding user with a cert. The SRV1 should then clone the necessary files from the gitlab repo by using deployer. The gitlab repo also has the public key from SRV1 user. This chain is working quite good.
The problem is, that after deploying I need to restart php-fpm so that it can reinitialize its symlinks and updates its absolute path cache.
I saw various methodes to overcome this with setting some cgi settings in php-fpm. But these didn't work for me since they all are using nginx, while I'm using apache.
Is there any other way to tell php-fpm with apache to reinitialize its paths or reload after changes?
The method to add the deployer user to the sudoers list and to call service restart php-fpm looks quite hacky to me...
Thanks
UPDATE1:
Actually I found this : https://github.com/lorisleiva/laravel-deployer/blob/master/docs/how-to-reload-fpm.md
It looks like, that deployer has some technique to do this. But this requires the deployer user to have acces to php-fpm reload. Looks a bit unsafe to me.
I didn't found any other solutions. there are some for nginx to tell nginx to always re-evaluate the real path. Obviously for Apache it should be "followSymLink" but it was not working.
Actually I created a bash script which is running under root. this script always check for changes in the "current" symlink every 10 seconds. if there was a change -> reload php-fpm. Not nice, of course quite ugly, but should work.
Still open for other proposals.
I solved this issue on my server by adding a php file that clear APCU & OPCACHE :
<?php
if (in_array(#$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], ['127.0.0.1', '::1']))
{
apcu_clear_cache();
apcu_clear_cache('user');
apcu_clear_cache('opcode');
opcache_reset();
echo "Cache cleared";
}
else
{
die("You can't clear cache");
}
then you have to call it with curl after you updated your symlink :
/usr/bin/curl --silent https://domain.ext/clear_apc_cache.php
I use Gitlab CI/CD it works now for me
I installed Git for Windows in order to clone and pull a project hosted on a remote Linux server.
In my repository (D:/repositories/my-project) I launch the following commands
git clone server#192.168.56.101:/var/www/web/my-project/.git
git pull origin master
So far so good. I pull the project files whenever modifications are applied on the server.
But now I'd like to pull or push from the remote server to my local repository.
I tried many things but I can't figure out how to access the repository located on my local machine.
Things like:
git pull duddy#my-pc:/d/repositories/my-project/.git master
just doesn't work, Git says:
ssh: Could not resolve hostname my-pc: Name or service not known
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Can someone helps me ?
First things first, I would recommend you try simply running git pull.
If this doesn't work, try running git remote -v and check to make sure that the URL for your server is listed as an origin (server#192.168.56.101:/var/www/web/my-project/.git).
Your issue is that you are inputting the URL for your local repository in your attempt to git pull.
I suggest reading the git-pull documentation to learn more about how pull works.
Basically, you need to have some service at your workstation which serves the requests. There are following options (I did not try most of them myself, just making it up from what I know):
use the windows file access. This is the easiest to setup at the windows workstation - just share the repository folder. The Linux side should somehow be able to mount windows shares (like described, for example, here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently). If you manage to mount your \\my-pc\repo to some /mount/my-pc-repo, then you can access it as file:///mount/my-pc-repo.
run git daemon at windows. Set up instructions are available at SO (for example, https://stackoverflow.com/a/2275844/2303202) and it pretty straightforward, but it does not have any authentication and in most cases it is reasonable to use it only for reading, so you will not be able to push to the workstation, only fetch.
set up ssh daemon and access through ssh authentication with read-write access. Git for windows installation contains the needed software (the sshd.exe binary, it is there at least for Git for Windows 2.6.0), probably there is a way to utilize it but I could not find it quickly.
set up HTTP(S) service at your workstation. I don't know if it is possible to do only with Git for Windows (it might be, with some perl module which happen to be included with it), or you should use some other software.
I made an ruby web application on nitrous.io, the tool is very nice and it helped a lot but now I want to download ther project in my computer and I didn't found any option to do that...
You can download and upload projects by any of the following options:
Utilize Nitrous Desktop to Sync your files locally.
Upload your project to Github, and pull the project from there. Here is a guide on adding the SSH key to Github if needed.
Upload the content via SCP. To do this, you will need to add an SSH Key to your account.
Next, run this command on your local machine, replacing {PORT} with the port # assigned to your Nitrous.IO box, and also changing usw1 with the proper region found in the SSH URI of your boxes page.
To Upload:
scp -P{PORT} -r path/to/yourFolder action#usw1-2.nitrousbox.com:~/workspace
To Download:
scp -P{PORT} -r action#usw1-2.nitrousbox.com:~/workspace path/to/yourLocalFolder
I do not know the service, but apparently they offer ssh access. Then you can use scp to copy the files to your machine. Anyway, probably you should ask their support...
...post a summary of their answer here and close the question :)
The easiest way is to store your project in a Git repository and then push this repository to an external host. You will then be able to clone your project from the external repository to any machine you want.
Personally, I use Bitbucket (Bitbucket as it is free and very easy to set up. Have a look at the tutorials there.
ok replying really late but I hope this will help anyone still looking for this. Here is how I download stuff from nitrous, no desktop utility download needed, and no ssh/scp or adding keys.
What you do is, simply make a archive for the folder you want to download by
tar -zcvf myarchive.tar.gz mydir/
now you got a *.gz file right? Whichever folder your gz file is in, be there and type:
python3.3 -m http.server 8080
you just started a cute little http server ready to serve you your download, now from the Preview menu click "Port 8080", this opens a new browser tab showing your gz file in the file listing (sample url http://yourboxes.apse1.nitrousbox.com:8080/). Now you can click your gz file and it will start downloading. Once done with the download, press Ctrl+C on the terminal to terminate the http server.
This is not limited to nitrous, you can make this work on many online VMs like cloud9 etc.
We have a git server running on Gitosis hosting our projects. We have created an interface to display info about our repos, and now need to deploy it to the Mac running gitosis. The files for the Sinatra app need to reside in the /Users/git/repositories folder, but we would also like the Sinatra app to start running whenever the master branch is updated.
Is there a tool specifically for deploying on a Mac/example of a Git hook that will deploy in this manner?
We are looking for the simplest deploy possible. I'm assuming it will run on apache and we'll need to add a virtual host....
EDIT: Passenger Pane looks interesting...anyone use it for this? Also, I suppose the files could reside in our existing Library/WebServer/Documents location and just reference the gitosis repos, given no permissions issues
If i understood your issue correctly, then
to deploy try include the following to apache config:
Alias /gitosis "/Users/git/repositories/public"
#YOU HAVE TO ln -s /Users/git/repositories/public /Library/WebServer/Documents/gitosis
<Directory /Users/git/repositories/public>
RackBaseURI /gitosis
</Directory>
to restart just:
touch /Users/git/repositories/tmp/restart.txt
I've been looking all over for decent instructions on how to get hgweb working on IIS but I haven't found much of worth.
There's this "step by step" on the Mercurial wiki, but it's not very good.
There's also this and this, but again, I can't find good steps to lead up to where those get started.
I just had to install a fresh Mercurial instance yesterday, here's updated instructions for 1.7:
Install Mercurial (these instructions were tested with 1.7)
Install Python (for Mercurial 1.7, you must use the x86 version of Python 2.6.6)
You will need to download the hgweb.cgi file from the Mercurial source. You can download the source by running: hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/
Create a folder that will be your web application folder. You will need to copy three things into this folder:
The hgweb.cgi file
The contents of the Library.zip from your "C:\Program Files\Mercurial" folder
The Templates folder from your "C:\Program Files\Mercurial"
You will need to make sure you have Python set up in IIS.
Enable CGI via the following: Control Panel -> Turn Windows Features On or Off -> Roles -> Web Server (IIS) -> Add Role Services -> Check CGI
Create a new Web Site in IIS and make sure the physical path is the folder you created above
In the Handler Mappings for the new website, select "Add Script Map". Enter *.cgi for the request path, c:\Python26\python.exe -u "%s" for the Executable, and Python for the Name.
You will also need to create a file named "hgweb.config" with contents similar to below. The path within the file needs to be the location on your drive where you want to store the Mercurial repositories:
[collections]
c:\Mercurial\repos = c:\Mercurial\repos
Edit the hgweb.cgi file and change the line where it sets the path to your hgweb.config to something like the following (wherever the hgweb.config file is):
config = "C:\Mercurial\hgweb.config"
Now, open a browser and navigate to http://localhost/mercurial/hgweb.cgi (or whatever is the appropriate URL path you set up in IIS) and you should see the Mercurial Repositories page.
Also, check out Jeremy Skinners blog post . It's a little outdated, but has some extra nice steps like setting up URL re-writing for cleaner URL's.
It seems since Mercurial 1.5.2 was released, these tutorials don't work exactly right. For one thing, hgwebdir.cgi has been removed, and is now replaced with hgweb.cgi.
The instructions that worked best for me is at eworldui.net:
http://www.eworldui.net/blog/post/2010/04/08/Setting-up-Mercurial-server-in-IIS7-using-a-ISAPI-module.aspx
Those instructions are meant for IIS 7 or greater. If you're setting this up on IIS 6, I wrote up similar instructions geared toward Win2k3 and IIS 6.0:
http://partialclass.blogspot.com/2010/05/setting-up-mercurial-server-on-win2k3.html
UPDATE: Shortly after getting this working I learned that BitBucket changed their pricing scheme to offer free, unlimited, private hosting: https://bitbucket.org/. I would've opted for that in a heartbeat when I was originally working on this project.
Below are what I did after doing a fair amount of research for geting hgwebdir.cgi setup on IIS6 . It is based on the following sites:
http://python.markrowsoft.com/iiswse.asp
http://www.jeremyskinner.co.uk/mercurial-on-iis7/
You'll need to install the following on the server:
Mercurial (I used version 1.5)
Python 2.6. The version of Python depends on the version of Mercurial installed.
Mercurial 1.5 uses Python 2.6. Install x86 even if you are running x64.
The steps for me were:
Create a directory for the website. I used c:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg.
In IIS, right click on the folder for hg, select properties, select the Home Directory tab.
Click on the Create application button. Set the execute permissions to "scripts".
Still in the Home Directory tab, click on the Configuration button. In the "Application Configuration" popup, click the Add button to add an application extension. The Executable is c:\Python26\python.exe -u "%s" "%s". The extension is .cgi. Set the "verbs" to "limit to: GET,HEAD,POST". Check both Script engine and Verify that file exists.
In the Directory Security tab, click on the Edit button in the Authentication and access control section. Uncheck all authentication methods, and check the "Basic authenication" method. Set the Default domain if you like to your Active Directory domain.
In IIS, click on the Web Service Extensions folder on the left panel. Click on "Add a new Web service extension" link. Extension name should be Python, the required file is c:\Python26\python.exe -u "%s" "%s". Make sure the new extension is "Allowed".
Now is a good time to test that Python is working. Create a file in your new Hg folder called test.cgi. Paste the following python code:
print 'Status: 200 OK'
print 'Content-type: text/html'
print
print '<html><head>'
print ''
print '<h1>It works!</h1>'
print ''
print ''
Open the browser to your site, for instance, http://localhost/hg/test.cgi
You should see "It works!" in the browser.
Next let's get the hgwebdir working.
Delete test.cgi
clone the hg repo to a new directory: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/
copy hgwebdir.cgi to your web directory: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg\ from the cloned hg repo
Edit the file and change
application = hgwebdir('hgweb.config')
wsgicgi.launch(application)
to
application = hgwebdir('c:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg\hgweb.config')
wsgicgi.launch(application)
Unzip the Library.zip file in the Mercurial directory, c:\Program Files\Mercurial\, to your web directory, c:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg\
Copy the templates directory from c:\Program Files\Mercurial\templates\ to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\hg\templates\
Create a file called hgweb.config in your web directory.
Now is a good time to test it out. Go to the following URL in the browser, http://localhost/hg/hgwebdir.cgi
Edit hgweb.config, and paste the following:
[collections]
\\server\share$\Hg\ = \\server\share$\Hg\
[web]
allow_push = *
push_ssl = false
These are all my preferences, for instance we have our repos in subdirectories at \\server\share$\Hg. The web app will run under the permissions of the logged in user via the browser, so they'll need read/write permissions to the share.
The last step is to allow for long connections which can happen when you first clone a repo. Run the following command to increase the timeout to 50 minutes:
cd \inetpub\AdminScripts\
cscript adsutil.vbs GET /W3SVC/CGITimeout
cscript adsutil.vbs SET /W3SVC/CGITimeout 3000
Use mercurial to clone the mercurial repository:
hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/
you will find hgwebdir.cgi at the top level. It should install
like any other cgi script.
I've been fighting with this setup for mercurial 1.7.2 for the past week or so, I had to do things slightly differently than the above articles do in order to get it working.
Posting here because google kept bringing me back here....
Full instructions posted here
I followed a combination of these instructions and these (in the source)
The main differences are that I had to do the "pure python" install of mercurial otherwise it would complain about missing dlls, and I found it was important to use the "python installers" for pywin and isapi-wsgi. (maybe this is obvious to experienced python developers, but I'm a python newbie so it was news to me)
Hope this helps somebody and I'm not just making stuff up (I might be, like i said, python newbie)
The hg red book contains some much better general instructions than I've seen in other places. They are not IIS specific, but they are quite good:
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/collaborating-with-other-people.html#sec:collab:cgi
I was running into a "...can not load module..." type error and after some reading, the key for me was to ignore the Library.zip file in the Mercurial folder, and instead use the one from C:\Program Files (x86)\TortoiseHg folder.
That tip I found as #6 in this guide:
http://www.endswithsaurus.com/2010/05/setting-up-and-configuring-mercurial-in.html
Hope this helps someone...
I know this is an old question, but I really struggled getting Hg installed on Server 2019 and IIS 10.
Here is what I did to get it working:
Install Python 2.7 which in my case was python-2.7.18.amd64.msi. I will assume it's installed in C:\Python27. Make sure python is added to your path and that pip is installed.
Install Mercurial as a module using pip at the command line:
pip install mercurial
Under Default Web Site add a new application called hg and point it to the directory you want to use to use.
Configure Python as CGI handler in IIS 10.0 for this new website (or the entire web server if you wish). You can do this manually or create/add the follwing to your web.config file:
<system.webServer>
<handlers accessPolicy="Read, Script">
<add name="Python 2.7" path="*.cgi" verb="*" modules="CgiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Python27\python.exe -u "%s"" resourceType="File" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
In the 'hg' application folder create a hgweb.cgi that looks similar to the following:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# An example hgweb CGI script, edit as necessary
# See also https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/PublishingRepositories
# Path to repo or hgweb config to serve (see 'hg help hgweb')
config = "hgweb.config"
# Uncomment and adjust if Mercurial is not installed system-wide
# (consult "installed modules" path from 'hg debuginstall'):
# import sys; sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib")
# Uncomment to send python tracebacks to the browser if an error occurs:
#import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
from mercurial import demandimport
demandimport.enable()
from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb, wsgicgi
application = hgweb(config)
wsgicgi.launch(application)
In the 'hg' application folder create the hgweb.config file and point it at your repos like the following:
[collections]
C:\Web\www\hg\repos\ = C:\Web\www\hg\repos\
Navigate to http://localhost/hg/hgweb.cgi and enjoy!
You can try HgLab. This isn't exactly hgwebdir; rather it is a purely managed Mercurial implementation with push and pull server and repository browser.