mercurial/help/hgweb.txt
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Mercurial's internal web server, hgweb, can serve either a single
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repository, or a collection of them. In the latter case, a special
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configuration file can be used to specify the repository paths to use
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and global web configuration options.
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This file uses the same syntax as other Mercurial configuration files,
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but only the following sections are recognized:
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  - web
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  - paths
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  - collections
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The ``web`` section can specify all the settings described in the web
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section of the hgrc(5) documentation. See :hg:`help config` for
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information on where to find the manual page.
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The ``paths`` section provides mappings of physical repository
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paths to virtual ones. For instance::
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  [paths]
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  projects/a = /foo/bar
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  projects/b = /baz/quux
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  web/root = /real/root/*
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  / = /real/root2/*
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  virtual/root2 = /real/root2/**
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- The first two entries make two repositories in different directories
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  appear under the same directory in the web interface
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- The third entry maps every Mercurial repository found in '/real/root'
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  into 'web/root'. This format is preferred over the [collections] one,
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  since using absolute paths as configuration keys is not supported on every
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  platform (especially on Windows).
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- The fourth entry is a special case mapping all repositories in
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  '/real/root2' in the root of the virtual directory.
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- The fifth entry recursively finds all repositories under the real
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  root, and maps their relative paths under the virtual root.
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The ``collections`` section provides mappings of trees of physical
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repositories paths to virtual ones, though the paths syntax is generally
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preferred. For instance::
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  [collections]
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  /foo = /foo
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Here, the left side will be stripped off all repositories found in the
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right side. Thus ``/foo/bar`` and ``foo/quux/baz`` will be listed as
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``bar`` and ``quux/baz`` respectively.