Setting up hgwebdir on Windows/Apache

[Paul Boddie]

Dmitry Zanozin wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I have questions about "setting up hgwebdir.cgi on
> Windows/Apache".
>
> 1) I cant setup the components to remove hgwebdir.cgi
> from urls. I've tried the ways, described at
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgWebDirStepByStep
> but it doesn't works:

This is very useful feedback as I'm going to review this page in the 
very near future. If I had full control over the Apache environment, I 
would probably choose a plain ScriptAlias directive and not the rather 
complicated recipe given on the Wiki. Untested and off the top of my 
head, something like this (just one line):

ScriptAlias /hg "C:/<ScriptPath>/hgwebdir.cgi"

It's true that URL matching is probably necessary where you only have a 
.htaccess file to play with, but I certainly wouldn't choose that 
approach to start with. Perhaps someone with more familiarity with that 
recipe can give the rationale for doing things that way.

Paul