Hgweb "Push" in IIS returning 502 (bad gateway)

Question

I've got hgweb up and running on II7 7 (on windows server 2008). The web interface works, and I can view, pull, and clone the repositories there. But I cannot push, doing so gives me a 502 error right after "searching for changes". Using --debug shows the last few lines as:

sending unbundle command
sending 622 bytes
HTTP Error: 502 (Bad Gateway)

I am using TortoiseHG to push, but the result is the same when using the mercurial command line.

I had followed the tutorial here: http://www.sjmdev.com/blog/post/2011/03/30/setting-mercurial-18-server-iis7-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx to setup hgweb.

Answer 1

Looks like an old question but someone is bound to come across it again. I was close to drawing a black circle on a wall and ... anyhow the issue for us was the way central repository was created. We cloned it from BitBucket while being Remote connected to the machine as local administrator.

The issue was in [Repository].hg folder. You need to set correct permissions on it. Try it with adding Everyone -> Full permissions for test purpose. Please make sure you change this to a dedicated network login or appropriate local account afterwards.

I was seeing the exact same behaviour - even push worked fine with exception of getting a Bad Gateway after all the time. After correct permissions were set the issue was gone.

Thinking about it now, probably the best solution is to add each network login that uses the repo to machine users and then set up access permissions to .hg folder to local users.

Hope it helps someone.