I have a new Fedora 12 server that I am attempting to set up Mercurial on. I have yum installed mercurial, and most things seem to work fine. However, after setting up hgwebdir.cgi through apache, I am unable to do an hg push to the only repo currently being hosted. The error I get back is:
searching for changes
abort: HTTP Error 500: Permission denied: .hg/store/lock
httpd is running as user apache
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1691 1 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 1694 1691 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 1695 1691 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 1696 1691 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 1697 1691 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 1698 1691 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 1699 1691 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 1700 1691 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache 1701 1691 0 13:19 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
and I set permissions so that the apache user owns the whole repo and everything. In a last ditch attempt, I even made the repo globally writable.
[root@builds .hg]# ll
total 424K
drwxrwxrwx. 3 apache apache 4.0K 2010-04-19 14:43 .
drwxrwxrwx. 19 apache apache 4.0K 2010-04-15 13:33 ..
-rw-rw-rw-. 2 apache apache 57 2010-04-13 11:42 00changelog.i
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 93 2010-04-16 15:33 branchheads.cache
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 192K 2010-04-15 13:33 dirstate
-rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 156 2010-04-19 14:43 hgrc
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 42 2010-04-15 13:33 last-message.txt
-rw-rw-rw-. 2 apache apache 23 2010-04-13 11:42 requires
drwxrwxrwx. 4 apache apache 4.0K 2010-04-19 11:26 store
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 45 2010-04-14 14:08 tags.cache
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 7 2010-04-16 15:33 undo.branch
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 192K 2010-04-16 15:33 undo.dirstate
[root@builds .hg]# cd store
[root@builds store]# ll
total 308K
drwxrwxrwx. 4 apache apache 4.0K 2010-04-19 11:26 .
drwxrwxrwx. 3 apache apache 4.0K 2010-04-19 14:43 ..
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 20K 2010-04-16 15:33 00changelog.i
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 81K 2010-04-16 15:33 00manifest.i
drwxrwxrwx. 17 apache apache 4.0K 2010-04-13 11:47 data
drwxrwxrwx. 3 apache apache 4.0K 2010-04-13 11:43 dh
-rw-rw-rw-. 2 apache apache 177K 2010-04-15 11:03 fncache
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 apache apache 67 2010-04-16 15:33 undo
I have a clone of the repo elsewhere on the machine running as a different user. If I set the the default value in the [paths] section of the clones hgrc file to the local filepath on the server, the push works fine, but if I switch it to use the url, I get the error every time.
Some possible quirks in how I've set this up... hgwebdir.cgi is sitting in /var/www/cgi-bin and the repo is a child of /opt/hg. I turned off suexec as well, and this doesn't seem to clear up the issue. The only line I added in the apache config to get hgwebdir running is:
ScriptAlias /hg "/var/www/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi"
The hgweb.config is also in /var/www/cgi-bin and it's contents are:
[collections]
/opt/hg = /opt/hg
[trusted]
users = *
[web]
baseurl = /hg
push_ssl = false
allow_push = *
The repo browser is working fine, it's just push that doesn't work. Apache error_log doesn't have anything in about this error at all.