Mercurial on IIS6+Win Server 2003 - path problems

Question

I'm trying to get Mercurial going with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 following the tutorial on this blog

My setup is

c:\inetpub\HG_web_interface\

and the folder containing repositories is in

d:\HG_repo\

My hgweb.config looks like this

[paths]
test = D:\HG_rep\**

[web]
style = monoblue

I tried pretty much every combination of forward/backward slashes, no slashed and whatnot, the only way I get it to work is to put my repository in the c: drive, then it works like a charm by simply putting this n hgweb.config

[paths]
test = \HG_rep\**

[web]
style = monoblue

Any idea on what's wrong?

p.s.: could it be some weird permission problem? If so, how can I troubleshoot it?

Answer 1

I guess the ":" is interpreted by the configparser.

Can you try to escape it ? A newer hg version should solve it too, since it includes it's own configuration file parser.

Answer 2

I figured it out: the user configured in the IIS application pool didn't have read/write access to the repository folder!

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