Mercurial push, abort: authorization failed.

[Piotr Byzia]

OMG, thanks Pat!

This was so obvious, that I haven't make sure it's right. chown to www- 
data solved my problem immediately :-)
What a pity that mistakes like that are not more verbose.

Thank you Isaac and Ted for other suggestions.

Best,
Piotr Byzia

On 5 Jun 2009, at 16:41, Pat Downey wrote:

> You might also want to check that the repositories in question are  
> writable by the user running apache.
>
> 2009/6/5 Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com>
> > 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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