Problem with Mercurial hg serve command

Question

When using the hg serve command in windows, the server starts correctly, but when somebody tries to do a clone, this error appears.

$ hg serve
listening at http://machineX:8000/ (bound to *:8000)
----------------------------------------
Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 4456)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SocketServer.pyc", line 558, in process_request_thread
  File "SocketServer.pyc", line 320, in finish_request
  File "mercurial\hgweb\server.pyc", line 42, in __init__
  File "SocketServer.pyc", line 615, in __init__
  File "BaseHTTPServer.pyc", line 329, in handle
  File "BaseHTTPServer.pyc", line 323, in handle_one_request
  File "mercurial\hgweb\server.pyc", line 74, in do_GET
  File "mercurial\hgweb\server.pyc", line 65, in do_POST
  File "mercurial\hgweb\server.pyc", line 58, in do_write
  File "mercurial\hgweb\server.pyc", line 122, in do_hgweb
  File "mercurial\hgweb\hgweb_mod.pyc", line 85, in __call__
  File "mercurial\hgweb\hgweb_mod.pyc", line 117, in run_wsgi
ErrorResponse
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It seems this is some sort of python error... I've already tried reinstalling to the lastest version of mercurial, but still the same problem occurs.

anybody else seen this before?

thanks!

Answer 1

Does it happen in an repo with subrepos?

I got the same stack trace in this situation.

Answer 2

It a dumb problem...

I was doing hg serve on my "hello" repository, and I was trying to access it as

hg clone http://machine:8000/hello

you shouldn't use the repo name in the address...

that is all.