Comments on: Hosting Mercurial Repo IIS7 Windows Server 2008R2 x64 Python ISAPI CGI

By: Alewinn

Alewinn — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:03:58 +0000

Hi,
As all of you i have a problem using Mercurial HG 1.9.x
I realised that there is a problem setting up security permissions over this folder (HG source code)…
maybe it can help…

By: firegarden

firegarden — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:43:51 +0000

I think the bottom line here is that none of us have been able to get Mecurial HG 1.9.x running. I will do some more testing when I have time. My wife is due with a new baby tomorrow!

I will refresh this article soon. In the mean time I guess we have to suck up and use Mecurial 1.8 cause it works ‘out of box’ when following this post.

Thank you

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:22:15 +0000

It’s nice, but not working solution (Server 2008 R2 x64). I used HG 1.9.2 & Python 2.7.2 (x64). During building HG I got:
package init file ‘mercurial\pure\__init__.py’ not found (or not a regular file)

Well, by some advice I created that rubbish and anyway stop at error:

running build_py
running build_ext
running build_mo
warning: hgbuildmo: could not find msgfmt executable, no translations will be built

So WTF is that ‘msgfmt’ and why nobody tested building HG? (

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:57:50 +0000

I’m also getting a server error 500 when trying this with Mercurial 1.9.2. Tried it again with 1.8.4 and it worked.

I had some problems with security as well though, the easiest way to solve it was to run the application pool as a new user that I made an administrator.

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:26:31 +0000

Thank you very much for this guide!

1. did it on windows 2008 R2 Server, 64bit.
first attempt with mercurial 1.9.2 failed, got the 500 as reported and investigated by you above.

2. Taking your advice I switched too Mercurial 1.8.4 direct from the links here and had it running minutes later.

ad 2: One strange thing to a python newbie: uninstalling python packages? I brutally removed the files from the pythons sub folder site-packages folder than removed 2 other files found in the python directory by searching for “mercurial” and installed hg 1.8.4.

ad 1: Actually while testing 1.9.2 I had something wrong: my old Mercurial 1.8 that came with tortoise hg was available via hg, since the path was directing to the old version. *Maybe* this affected the outcome. It might make sense to either remove tortoise before executing this guide or at least to check “hg –version” to be sure that the correct mercurial is under configuration.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:02:08 +0000

I’m getting the same issue trying to install Mercurial 1.9.2, but following all other instructions to the letter, via the x64 path:

Failed to import callback module ‘hgwebdir_wsgi’
The specified module could not be found.

I’m not comfortable going with this setup if I can’t upgrade to the latest Mercurial. Do you have any idea what’s going wrong?

Thanks for the guide,

By: Stijn

Stijn — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:06:33 +0000

Hello,

thank you for the instructions. Found your link on StackOverflow while looking for a solution to the Python error using Jeremy Skinner’s tutorial.

Have you found a way to get it working with Mercurial 1.9 ?

By: Marius

Marius — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:52:00 +0000

For the ApplicationPool it is necessary to set Pipelinemode to classic.

Otherwise I got server error 500.

By: firegarden

firegarden — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:02:46 +0000

This has to be a Python installation issue. I have done the install on that same configuration without that problem. First of all are you certain you have installed the 64 bit versions? I suggest you start over and be sure you get 64 bit version of Python and Mercurial. Let me know if you need further assistance.

By: serge

serge — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:16:44 +0000

Hi, can you help me with ‘Couldn’t import standard bz2 (incomplete Python install).’ when trying to run ‘python.exe setup.py –pure build_py -c -d . build_ext -i …’

My environment is win server 2008 X64, Python 2.7.2

Thank you