Disable hgweb browsing

[moroswitie]

moroswitie <moroswitie at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm currently starting to work on a custom mercurial project web
> application and need to disable the build in repository browser.
>
> I wasn't able to find such an option, and a quick work around would be
> to redirect all repository browser requests. The problemd is I
> couldn't find the format that the hgweb.cgi scripts accepts to show
> the repository browser.

Try running 'hg serve' and access http://localhost:8000/ in your
browser. Now access it with hg, the command line client.


If people want to browse their local copy of the repository that isn't a
problem.


Martin Geisler wrote:
> 
>> Could anybody point me in the right direction so I know how to rewrite
>> the request so that I can serve up a nice error message saying that
>> repository browsing is disabled with the build in browser.
>>
>> Disabling the browser should not disable pull or push. So I think I
>> also need to know the urls for the push and pull commands.
> 
> If people can pull, then they can just run 'hg serve' locally and do
> what you are trying to disable... so why do you want to disable the
> repository browser on your server?
> 
> All the commands done by the command line client access URLs of the form
> 
>   /?cmd=COMMAND
> 

We are setting up multiple repositories and are creating a custom repository
browser. To avoid confusion we would like to disable the build in browser.

By making use of the webserver, we are able to allow/disallow pull/push
actions based on the username and password. Some developers are not able to
make use of ssh all the time so we are looking for a solution to do this
with http, and could only find the hgweb.cgi script to do this. If there are
other ways of allowing push/pull over http/https that would make things even
easier. I hope that explains it a little better.


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