Free public Mercurial hosting

[Torfinn Ottesen]

On 4/25/07, Colin McMillen <colin.mcmillen at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not quite what you asked for, but for what it's worth, I've been
> pretty happy with NearlyFreeSpeech.net.  I've been using them for
> hosting a couple personal hg repos for about 3 months.
>
> NFSN offers web hosting + shell account, prepaid, on a
> pay-for-what-you-use model (my site costs me about 50 cents / month).
> They have Mercurial installed on the shell server, and hgweb works on
> the web server.  It's only $0.25 to set up an account, so it doesn't
> cost a lot to try it out.
>
> Colin

Thanks for the tip, it is Mercurial 0.9.3 on FreeBSD. I am slowly
progressing on learning how to set up a repository there, the
hgwebdir.cgi is installed as well as a hgweb.config. I seem to have a
problem with the .htaccess file. It seems as if I must write URL as
URL/to/hg/hgwebdir.cgi for the repository links (first word on each
line) to work OK, I cannot follow the links to the repository if I
write URL/to/hg -then I get a slightly different, plain text  table.

My .htaccess is similar to the one at section 4.5 Using .htaccess
file: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/PublishingRepositories
- but I seem to require the hgwebdir.cgi in my URL.

I have also a question regarding the text above the referred
.htaccess, it mentions hg.cgi whereas it says hgwebdir.cgi in
.htaccess, what is correct?. Quote:  "Here is an .htaccess file which
sits in hg/ directory on webserver and redirects http://server/hg/*
urls to hg.cgi script inside of that folder"

Regards
Torfinn