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Here’s a quick and easy recipe for serving a mercurial repository with mod_wsgi.

1. Create a file called hgwebdir.wsgi with these contents:

   from mercurial.hgweb.request import wsgiapplication
   from mercurial.hgweb.hgwebdir_mod import hgwebdir
   
   def make_web_app():
       return hgwebdir("/path/to/hgweb.config")
   
   application = wsgiapplication(make_web_app)
   

2. Add it to the apache configuration:

   WSGIScriptAlias /hg /path/to/hgwebdir.wsgi

3. [optional] To make sure nobody modifies your repository via the http interface, add ‘deny_push = *’ to the ‘[web]‘ group of hgweb.config.

Hopefully this page will save the next person a few minutes of searching.