When running Mercurial version 2.6.3 on my remote repo hosted over Apache, I could browse, download tar, view tags etc. but when cloning, consistently got a 500 error.
C:\Users\Rob\Documents> hg clone http://myserver.com/myrepo/ LocalWorkspace http authorization required realm: Mercurial Repository user: **** password: requesting all changes abort: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error |
My Apache logs were just as useful:
[Sun Sep 29 09:52:34 2013] [error] [client 10.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=5 changesets found: hgweb.cgi |
It turns out, it was a bug in Mercurial caused by the verbose flag on the remote end; editing my hgweb.cgi’s hgrc configuration and adding this line solved the problem.
[ui] # Fix for 500 error on http clone verbose=false |