Serving multiple repos with hg serve. How?

Question

The wiki mentions it's possible to do this under hg serve, but there aren't any examples (such as a sample webdir-conf file). Yes I know it would be better to do this all under Apache, but this is a local machine and hg serve just makes sense for us.

Answer 1

As you've hinted at you use the hg serve --webdir-conf FILE invocation and the webdir.conf format is the same as it is for hgweb.cgi. So those examples apply to you too:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HgWebDirStepByStep#Preparing_the_config

so at your most basic you can do:

[paths]
/repos = /webdata/hg_repos/*

where repos/ is the path on your local system to the directory containing the repositories.

(and you're right it would be much better to take the time to do this under Apache).

Answer 2

use this in your webdir config (for example)

foo.config << EOL

[paths]
power = power/Repo
billable = /path/to/billable/Repo
EOL 

hg serve --webdir-conf foo.config

Assuming your repos live in different places...

Answer 3

As an alternative You can use RhodeCode, it's standalone app written in pylons.

"RhodeCode is Pylons framework based Mercurial repository browser/management with build in push/pull server and full text search and permissions system."

A demo can be viewed here.

http://demo.rhodecode.org

Regards