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    Increase the amount of output printed. True or False. Default is False.


``web``
"""""""
Web interface configuration.

``accesslog``
    Where to output the access log. Default is stdout.
``address``
    Interface address to bind to. Default is all.

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    Increase the amount of output printed. True or False. Default is False.


``web``
"""""""

Web interface configuration. The settings in this section apply to
both the builtin webserver (started by :hg:`serve`) and the script you
run through a webserver (``hgweb.cgi`` and the derivatives for FastCGI
and WSGI).

The Mercurial webserver does no authentication (it does not prompt for
usernames and passwords to validate *who* users are), but it does do
authorization (it grants or denies access for *authenticated users*
based on settings in this section). You must either configure your
webserver to do authentication for you, or disable the authorization
checks.

For a quick setup in a trusted environment, e.g., a private LAN, where
you want it to accept pushes from anybody, you can use the following
command line::

    $ hg --config web.allow_push=* --config web.push_ssl=False serve

Note that this will allow anybody to push anything to the server and
that this should not be used for public servers.

The full set of options is:

``accesslog``
    Where to output the access log. Default is stdout.
``address``
    Interface address to bind to. Default is all.