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Hello,

I'm trying to serve Fossil repositories in shared hosting environment where Hiawatha is working behind reverse-proxy (nginx)...

The CGI script is Fossil binary and it's in my $PATH.

The hiawatha config is:

...
CGIhandler = /path/to/binary/fossil:fsl
CGIextension = fsl

and the config for virtual host is:

# Fossil repos
VirtualHost {
        Hostname = fossil.domain.tld
        WebsiteRoot = /path/to/the/site
        AccessLogfile = /path/to/access.log
        ErrorLogfile = /path/to/error.log
        ExecuteCGI = yes
        StartFile = repo.fsl
        EnablePathInfo = yes
}

repo.fsl 'script' contains:

#!/path/to/binary/fossil
repository: /path/to/the/site/repo.fossil

When I try to acces my repo at url [fossil.domain.tld] Hiawatha renders my with this URL:

http://fossil.domain.tld/repo.fsl/index

but the problem is when I try to push from my desktop machine to the remote server's repository:

fossil push --verbose http://userid:password@fossil.domain.tld/path/to/the/site/repo.fossil
                Bytes      Cards  Artifacts     Deltas
waiting for server...
server says: 405 Method Not Allowed
Push finished with 877 bytes sent, 863 bytes received

Here is the appropriate log entry:

94.250.191.15|Sun 08 Feb 2015 13:26:43 +0000|405|872||POST /path/to/the/site/repo.fossil/xfer/xfer HTTP/1.0|Host: fossil.domain.tld|X-Forwarded-Host: fossil.domain.tld|X-Forwarded-Server: fossil.domain.tld|X-Forwarded-For: 94.250.191.15|Forwarded-Request-Uri: /path/to/the/site/repo.fossil/xfer/xfer|Http-X-Forwarded-Proto: http|Https: off|X-Forwarded-Proto: http|X-Forwarded-SSL: off|Connection: close|Content-Length: 658|User-Agent: Fossil/1.30 (2015-01-19 13:06:21 [151473ae36])|Content-Type: application/x-fossil

Any idea what might be wrong?

I might try by using system-wide instance of Apache, but I'd like to use Hiawatha for it as it is used for all other sites.



Hiawatha version: 9.11
Operating System: Linux CentOS x86_64

First, don't use CGIhandler and CGIextension for the same extension. Read this HOWTO for further details.

Second, you specified .fsl as a CGI, but the file that gave errors as extension .fossil. Hiawatha doesn't know that extension, so it treats it as a normal file (non-CGI that is). Tell Hiawatha how to handle .fossil via the CGIhandler (or CGIextension) as well.

That's result of too much experimentation. Fixed.



This was fixed by using proper URL in push, iow. there is only one CGI extension to be handled and now I put it to 'CGI' instead of 'fsl', while I still use '.fossil' for local repos.

Thanks for helping me find the way.