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?
I figured it out: the user configured in the IIS application pool didn't have read/write access to the repository folder!
Sometimes things are much easier than we think... Now I'm trying to troubleshoot why I can't connect to my repository with TortoiseHG...
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.
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This is my first post under the Apache tag, so not sure if I have posted it in the correct spot. Apologies if it's not.
We recently had an audit done on our Apache server. It's running on a Windows Server 2012 R2, and I installed Apache 2.4.27 through WAMP.
The results from the Audit are fairly specific, but I don't know where to go in the Config file to fix these. My IMIT department has gone through a number of changes and we no longer have someone who can help me, so I'm stuck.
The three areas I need to correct are:
1) MISSING SECURITY HEADERS Recommendation: Implement HTTP security headers in the web applications to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities.
2) Recommendation: Make sure that browsable directories do not leak confidential informative or give access to sensitive resources. Additionally, use access restrictions or disable directory indexing for any that do.
3) The remote web server supports the TRACE and/or TRACK methods. TRACE and TRACK are HTTP methods that are used to debug web server connections. Recommendation: Disable these methods.
I have looked in the config and in various documentation online but the Windows install for Apache seems to be unique, and I don't want to risk screwing up something that breaks the install.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Chris
Find httpd.conf file. It should be in the conf folder in the localization where Apache is installed like for ex:
C:/Apache/Apache/conf/httpd.conf
If you're not sure where that is - open task manager, find httpd.exe and check it's properties.
Then add required configuration there.
Check out this helpful github:
https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-apache/blob/master/dist/.htaccess
You can check your configuration files for syntax errors without starting the server by using apachectl configtest or the -t command line option.
Hi so basically what I am trying to do is get my spring web-application to run on port 80. I have installed tomcat8 and apache on a Ubuntu server and everything is running smoothly on myDomainName.com:8080, I have tried installing Authbind to help but it says I must set AUTHBIND=yes in the file location /etc/default/tomcat but for some reason this file is not present.
I have read previously that this file is not created if the installation was done from extracting the target file, this was my approach and this seems to me why the file is not there, I have no other solution.
Is there another way to set this authbind to yes or will I have to use Ip tables, or forward requests from Apache to tomcat. if i cant set authbind what in your opinion is the best solution.
Sorry if I left anything out, any help/suggestions would be of great help.
Thanks!
I would just completely reinstall the Tomcat on to your system. I had a similar problem and this was the only solution for me.
I've been strugling for a couple of days with this problem, but can't seem to fix it, I think I'm almost there.... but... not quite :(
This is where I am at.
I'm on a headless debian server, running virtualmin / webmin for creating my domains / users etc. I don't know if this will mess things up, but I'm happy to modify the config files manually (via webmin or via ssh/vim).
I am attempting to run fossil as a cgi service over apache.
its an internal site, named as homeserver.net I can reach the default pages just fine, and add in and create links etc as I want to.
Please note that the solution to my problem is at the end of the question.
so the files are located on disk at, which tallys up with my apache document root
/home/homeserver/www
I would like to run fossil to have both the internal site, and later on and dev work that I practice on in separate files. So I created a new directory for these repositories.
/home/homeserver/repos/web/site.fossil
/home/homeserver/repos/dev/ [no repository yet!]
reading the instructions on the fossil page I have inserted a short cgi file called 'fos_repo.cgi' that reads as.
#!/usr/bin/fossil
directory: /home/homeserver/repos
notfound: http://www.homeserver.net/site404.htm
when I open the link to
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/fos_repo.cgi
I get redirected to the 404 page that I have written. So the script is clearly being read and working.
From reading the fossil pages I understand that I should be able to use the following link to open/access the repo.
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/repos/web/site
I'm not sure why this isn't working...
so far I have tried the following.
I opened the repository from the cli, and had the server run in the background
fossil server site.fossil &
I though maybee the file should have been inside the main repo directory, not inside a sub directory, so I moved it... it now lives in
/home/homeserver/repos/site.fossil
I tried creating an alias to the file in apache
Alias /home/homeserver/repos/web/site.fossil /home/homeserver/www/repos
When I browse to
www.homeserver.net/repos/site
I get nothing, but going to
www.homeserver.net/repos/site.fossil
will attempt to downloaded the file (which is a binary)
so I think I'm getting somewhere, but I'm not sure what I'm missing.
I've used fossil before, but I ran it as a local server, and started it up as and when I needed it.
I'm running it like this so as I can eventually push the site out to a live VPS (maybe even finish up hosting the fossil site on the VPS also).
ps I really liked fossil when I used it before, and loved the whole integrated wiki and bug tracker, and the fact I could simply copy the file to my external drive to do a backup. Personally don't really want to change to something else, but if I have to....
thanks in advance.
David
Edit: trying other options.
So I thought I would try the single repository method shown on the fossil page, so adjusted my cgi script accordingly.
Now when I navitage to : www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/fos_repo.cgi I get the following message returned
SQLITE_CANTOPEN: cannot open file at line 30276 of [f5b5a13f73]
SQLITE_CANTOPEN: os_unix.c:30276: (21) open(/home/homeserver/repos)
however if I ssh to the server an start it manually with
fossil server site.fossil
I can get to the server with www.homeserver.net:8081
So I either have a problem with my SQLite usage in apache or something else wrong. Plesse help
Solution
So for reasons of simplicity I've decided that using a single cgi file for each repo is what I am going to go with.
My initial directory structure was as follows:
/home/homeserver/www
/home/homeserver/www/repos
/home/homeserver/www/repos/web # for web site development
/home/homeserver/www/repos/dev # for other development
I think part of my problem was that I was hoping that having the directory: pont to my repos/ location fossil would find the site.fossil file (located in repos/web) and the dev.fossil file (located in repos/deb).
Obviously this didn't work.
The reason I wanted it too look like this was for separation of the information on my system.
For some reason I had decided that pointing fossil as repos/ would give me a nice fossil style front page and links to my repositories automatically. However After having used the directory: version and getting the following error message
Unable to find or open the project repository
I realised that I was still going to need to write my front page to the repositories, and that my expectation was a little too much.
So I've decided to run with a single cgi file pointing to each repo that i need to make.
Instead of
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/repos/web/site
try
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/repos.cgi/index
Reading your ( very long ) question again, I suggest trying
www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/fos_repos.cgi/index
My issue seems peculiar. First i'll explain my setup. I'm using CentOS with Apache and Resin service. Thing is my application log seems to work perfectly fine configured with log4j but velocity log is not working (logger name = org.apache.velocity).
My local environment with the above specified settings works great (incuding the velocity log).
However in my dev environment configured with the same environment only the velocity log fails to roll or write any data.
I have very limited access to the dev environment and am unable to simulate this issue in the similar local env. hence unable to find the root cause or a solution to this.
Any help/suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated..
Thanks in advance!!
It was an issue with a corrupted jar file on the dev end...fixed now... hope this serves some help to any person with similar fate...
So I have managed it. I can clone mercurial-repositories remotely using HTTP to my Windows Server 2003 machine and the ipaddress from that machine. Although I did deactivate IIS6 and am using Apache 2.2.x now. But not all works right now...darn! Here's the thing:
Cloning goes smooth! But when I want to push my changes to the original repository I get the message "cannot lock static http-repository". On the internet I get to read several explanations that Mercurial wasn't designed to push over HTTP connections. Still, on the Mercurial website there's something about configuring an hgrc file.
There's also the possibilty to configure Apache to host via HTTPS (or SSL). For this you have to load the module enabling OpenSSL and generating keys.
Configuring the hgrc file
Just add "push_ssl = false" under the [web] line. But where to put this file when pushing your changes back?! Because I placed it in the root of the server, in the ".hg" directory, nothing works.
Using SSL/HTTPS with Apache
When I try to access 'https://myipaddress' it fails, displaying a dutch message which would mean something like "server taking too long to respond". Trying to push also gives me a dutch error message which means about the same. It can not connect to my server via https although I followed the steps exactly at this blog.
I don't care which of the above solutions will work for me. Turns out none of them work so far. So please, can anyone help me with one of the solutions above? Pick the easiest! Help will be greatly appreciated, not only from me.
Summary
-Windows Server 2003
-Apache 2.2 with OpenSSL
-Mercurial 1.8.2
-I can clone, but not push!
Thank you!
Maarten Baar(s)
It seems like you might have apache configured incorrectly for getting it to do what you want. Based on your question it sounds like you have a path (maybe the root of the server) pointing to the repository you want to serve.
Mercurial comes with a script for this exact purpose, in the latest version it is hgweb.cgi. There are reasonably good instructions for setting it up on the mercurial site. It should allow both cloning and pushing. You will need the push_ssl=false if you will not be configuring https and also an allow_push line which will let certain users, or all (*) push to the repository. But all that should be part of the setup docs.