How to authenticate users on TortoiseHg web server?

Question

TortoiseHg web server configuration has an "Allow Push" parameter where I put the users allowed to push changes. But when I try to push I get an "authorization failed" error. How are the users authenticated? Where do the passwords come from?

Answer 1

Setting allow_push = * will allow anybody to push to your repository served with hg serve. You should of course only do that on a trusted network. Apart from that, you cannot do authentication with hg serve -- you need a webserver in front of it that will authenticate users.

Please see hgrc for a terse explanation of allow_push and the wiki for a slightly longer explanation about what hg serve is for.

Answer 2

I'm just getting into Mercurial, and from what I can tell (and read in the documentation), the TortoiseHg web server isn't meant to be a permanent solution. The docs seem to steer you towards running either Apache or lighttpd.

You may also want to check out Vampire Basic's tutorial on running Mercurial on Windows.