Install Mercurial 1.9.1 (isapi) on win2k3

Question

I have been trying to get Mercurial installed on my 32bit 2003 server and i have been running into some issues. i have followed these instructions (which is the most current that i can find) with the exception i used the following versions that differ.

• python 2.6.6
• mercurial 1.9.1
  • mercurial 1.9 (no change/ same error)
  • mercurial 1.8.1 (no change/ same error)

After the install everything appears to be ok but then i get this error in eventvwr when i hit the site.

Failed to import callback module 'hgwebdir_wsgi'

I'm not sure where to start with this one, i have tried this but it didnt seem to make any change. I even tried this twice once as an over install/upgrade and once as a clean install.

Answer 1

I recently did the same as you on Windows Server 2008 with the same result when I used Mercurial 1.9.1. However, switching to an older version of Mercurial worked for me (I'm not 100% on the version number but I think it was 1.8.1)

Did you download the 1.8.1 version of hgwebdir_wsgi.py and regenerate the dll when you installed the older version of Mercurial?

Other possible issues: Did you remember to enable 32 bit extensions in IIS? Is python in your path? Can you execute it from a cmd prompt from any folder?

Edit: I followed these instructions and they are the ones that didn't work for 1.9 and did work for 1.8.1. Comparing them to the instructions that you followed I can see one step which is different: it says to download the source for mercurial and to compile it (your reference page refers to using the source installation but not to compiling it)