• In recent versions of Mercurial SSL verification will fail for self signed SSL/HTTPS certs. There are two ways to fix the issue.
• In the past the cacerts or web.cacerts would work around this problem, but it no longer works

1. To find the host fingerprint run the following

    openssl s_client -connect <FQDN>:443 < /dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -fingerprint -noout -in /dev/stdin

2. You should get something like SHA1 Fingerprint=9E:FD:0A:7B:C0:40:3D:A9:CF:BD:FE:DA:5E:D3:A8:EB:04:DB:2D:33 take the hexidecimal value and use it the next step
3. Add the following to your hgrc file

   [hostfingerprints]
   <FQDN from step 1> = <HEXVALUE from step 2>

• It goes without saying the this is not a very good idea, but if all else fails this will get mercrial to talk to a self signed https server

1. Add the following to your hgrc file:

   [alias]
   push = push --insecure

• Install apache
• Install mercurial

mkdir path/to/rep
hg init

[web]
push_ssl = false
allow_push = *

index.cgi

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
 
# adjust python path if not a system-wide install:
#import sys
#sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib")
 
# enable importing on demand to reduce startup time
from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
 
# send python tracebacks to the browser if an error occurs:
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
 
# If you'd like to serve pages with UTF-8 instead of your default
# locale charset, you can do so by uncommenting the following lines.
# Note that this will cause your .hgrc files to be interpreted in
# UTF-8 and all your repo files to be displayed using UTF-8.
#
#import os
#os.environ["HGENCODING"] = "UTF-8"
 
from mercurial.hgweb.hgweb_mod import hgweb
from mercurial.hgweb.request import wsgiapplication
import mercurial.hgweb.wsgicgi as wsgicgi
 
def make_web_app():
    return hgweb("/path/to/rep", "rep name")
 
wsgicgi.launch(wsgiapplication(make_web_app))

.htaccess

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/hg.passwd
Require user some-user