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Asked: 2026-05-14T14:07:33+00:00

I try to publish multiple existing mercurial repository-locations though XAMPP Apache via CGI Python

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I try to publish multiple existing mercurial repository-locations though XAMPP Apache via CGI Python script hgwebdir.cgi … as in this tutorial https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HgWebDirStepByStep

I get the following error from the apache error logs, when I try to access the repository path with a browser:

Premature end of script headers: hgwebdir.cgi 

[Tue Apr 20 16:00:50 2010] [error] [client 91.67.44.216] Premature end of script headers: hgwebdir.cgi
[Tue Apr 20 16:00:50 2010] [error] [client 91.67.44.216]   File "C:/hostdir/xampp/cgi-bin/hg/hgwebdir.cgi", line 39\r
[Tue Apr 20 16:00:50 2010] [error] [client 91.67.44.216]     test = c:/hostdir/mercurial/test/\r
[Tue Apr 20 16:00:50 2010] [error] [client 91.67.44.216]             ^\r
[Tue Apr 20 16:00:50 2010] [error] [client 91.67.44.216] SyntaxError: invalid syntax\r

This is the path of the file where the script fails (and if I remove it, I get an empty HTML page shown with no visual elements in it):

[paths]
test = c:/hostdir/mercurial/test/
/hg = c:/hostdir/mercurial/**
/ = c:/hostdir/mercurial/

Does anybody have a clue for me?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Okay, after all it was just a whole lot of directory-location-problems and a big version-problem (needed to use Python 2.6 with Mercurial 1.5.1). Got it working now. If I happen to write a full windows-guide, I’ll add a comment.

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