How to setup FreeHg on your own server

Assuming you are using Debian unstable (it should be similar on other distributions).

sudo apt-get install -t experimental python-django
hg clone http://freehg.org/u/mmarshall/freehg/
cd freehg
cp default_settings.py settings.py

Apply the following patch:

# HG changeset patch
# User Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz>
# Date 1215091794 -7200
# Node ID e2055dc9678e37e8ec0e140ee76dfcefd0245ffe
# Parent  9de77539abe2c32a2a1bdc35cc87fa872b96b3af
summary view adapted to the latest mercurial

diff --git a/repos/views.py b/repos/views.py
--- a/repos/views.py
+++ b/repos/views.py
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ def summary(request, username, reponame)
     from mercurial.hgweb.hgweb_mod import hgweb
     from mercurial.hgweb.common import style_map
     from mercurial import templater
+    from mercurial.templatefilters import filters as common_filters
     from django.conf import settings
     web = hgweb(hgrepo, name=repo.get_long_name())
     web.refresh()
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ def summary(request, username, reponame)
         yield web.config("web", "motd", "")
     templatepath = settings.HG_TEMPLATE_PATH
     mapfile = mapfile = style_map(templatepath, "freehg")
-    web.t = templater.templater(mapfile, templater.common_filters,
+    tmpl = templater.templater(mapfile, common_filters,
                                      defaults={"url": request.build_absolute_uri(),
                                                "staticurl": "/static/",
                                                "urlbase": "/",
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ def summary(request, username, reponame)
             else:
                 # FIXME I have a feeling that this isn't correct.
                 content.append(str(thing).decode('utf8'))
-    write(web.summary())
+    write(web.summary(tmpl))
 
     return render_to_response('repos/summary.html',
         dict(

And also this patch:

--- default_settings.py 2008-06-15 11:41:43.658803990 +0200
+++ settings.py 2008-07-03 15:18:54.245187159 +0200
@@ -7,10 +7,13 @@
     # ('Your Name', 'your_email@domain.com'),
 )
 
+import os
+
 MANAGERS = ADMINS
 
-DATABASE_ENGINE = ''           # 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
-DATABASE_NAME = ''             # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
+DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'           # 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
+#DATABASE_NAME = ''             # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
+DATABASE_NAME = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'database.dat')
 DATABASE_USER = ''             # Not used with sqlite3.
 DATABASE_PASSWORD = ''         # Not used with sqlite3.
 DATABASE_HOST = ''             # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
@@ -63,10 +66,15 @@
 
 ROOT_URLCONF = 'freehg.urls'
 
+HTPASSWD_FILE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'htpasswd')
+HG_TEMPLATE_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'hgtemplates')
+REPO_PATH = "/tmp/po"
+
 TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
     # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
     # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
     # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
+    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates'),
 )
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = (

Create database tables:

./manage.py syncdb

(You can answer "no" to create superuser now.) Test it locally

./manage.py runserver

Installing in apache

Apache config:

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName freehg.org
    ServerAdmin your@email.com
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE freehg.settings
    PythonPath "['/home/ondra/repos/'] + sys.path"
        <Location "/static">
            SetHandler None
        </Location>
        Alias /static /home/ondra/repos/freehg/htdocs/static
        <Location "/u">
            SetHandler None
        </Location>
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule u(/.*) /home/ondra/repos/freehg/web/hgwebdir.cgi$1
          <Directory "/home/ondra/repos/freehg/web/">
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
            AllowOverride All
            Options ExecCGI
            AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
          </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then setup permissions

$ chmod o+x freehg
$ cd freehg
$ chmod o+x database.dat

so that Apache can write to the database and create files in the freehg dir.