Mercurial HG Serve HTTP 500 Error

Question

I'm running a mercurial repository using hg serve. I can access it via a browser and view everything in my repository however when I try to do an hg clone with the same url I get HTTP Error: 500 (Internal Server Error).

UPDATE: It turns out this is an issue somehow caused by using TortoiseHG web server instead of using hg serve explicitly. The error that TortoiseHG is showing is "AttributeError: 'Blackhole' object has no attribute 'fileno'"

Answer 1

It looks like they're tracking this issue here: https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/issue/937/error-cloning-repo-using-serve.

For now the solution is to run hg serve from the command line.

Answer 2

I had same problem, and adding the extension in the .hg/hgrc of the repository itself solved the issue :

[extensions] largefiles=

Answer 3

Look at the output of hg serve command. I bet any errors will be printed right there.

If that is not enough, try passing --errorlog somefile.log option.

We can't help you more than this without seeing the actual error message.