Serving mercurial using lighttpd fastcgi

Fuh.. Finally after 2 days of searching and experimenting I've gotten it to work. For the fastcgi part of lighttpd you have to have something like:

 "/hg" => (
              (
                      "bin-path"        => "/home/dev/web/hgwebdir.fcgi",
                      "socket"          => "/tmp/hgwebdir.sock",
                      "check-local"     => "disable",
                      "disable-time"    => 1,
                      "min-procs"       => 1,
                      "max-procs"       => 1
              ),

Fuh.. That was where I was stuck with the most. For the rest just follow the guide at the mecurial wiki. As for configuring lighttpd authentication (very simple authentication at least :P) please refer to this article at cyberciti.

Now I can get some work done.. :D

Using ldap auth in lighttpd

Alhamdullillah.. It is quite easy to set up lighttpd to authenticate using ldap. Found a reference here: http://wiki.netbsd.se/Lighttpd_on_NetBSD. Just enable mod auth and follow the examples in the wiki. Great.. :)