HG Push Failed; Permission denied .hg/store/lock

Question

I have been trying to setup a mercurial repository on my server so that my team can work from theirs. I am running Ubuntu server 10.4 and I did the install of mercurial using apt-get. Now this all went smoothly.

I init a dir with hg just fine, I setup the hgrc as follows:

[web]
push_ssl = False
allow_push = *

[trusted]
users = *
groups=

then I run hg serve. The server begins listening. I can clone this repository to another computer but when I try and push my changes i get the error:

C:\Users\UserName\Project1>hg push http://MyInternalIP:8000
pushing to http://MyInternalIP:8000
searching for changes
abort: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error

On the server side I get the following error:

LockUnavailable: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/UserName/projects/Project1/.hg/store/lock'

If anyone has a solution to how to fix this that would be amazing. I have googled and found people with similar issues and they say that it may have something to do with the web user not having permissions but I am new to all of this and none of them give solutions on how to fix the issue. Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

You must allow write access to the repository directories to the user running the Mercurial server process. I.e the user account running hg serve must be able to write to /home/UserName/projects/Project1/

BTW can you provide more details as to what command line you used to clone the repository?

Answer 2

In my case with mercurial repository on redmine

HTTP Error: 500 (Permission denied)

Run

chown -R www-data /path/to/repos

on the server, it worked for me.

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