Mercurial push, abort: authorization failed.

[Ted Pavlic]

> I'm having problems with pushing to mercurial repository:
> abort: authorization failed

IIRC, in the past, "hg push" sometimes has problems when the web server 
can't find all of its error documents. In particular, when it looks for 
the error document for a 401 error, it generates an additional 404 
error, and that confuses hg push.

Make sure all of your ErrorDocuments exist. For example, you might put...

ErrorDocument 401 401.html
ErrorDocument 403 403.html
ErrorDocument 404 404.html

in your .htaccess and then populate those files with appropriate content 
(one method for doing that is copying a "view source" of the standard 
message displayed when one of them gets issued). For testing, just 
creating them should suffice.

--Ted

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