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What specific steps to I need to take to set it up?

Do I need special post-commit hooks to update the remote copy of the site?

Do I need SSH access to the remote server?

I'm looking for a setup where I can push the changes to the remote repository and the changes will be published to the website.

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You can configure Mercurial to run a web server using the hg serve command. A list of runtime options on hg serve are available here.

Once you have your web server set up, hg clone http://servername:port will pull a copy of the server's resources, and hg push from that directory will update the server.

To force the server to update itself upon receiving a new push, add the following to the .hg/hgrc file in the repository:

[hooks]
changegroup = hg update >&2

This should accomplish what you're looking for.

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  • Wow... thank you so much. I think I searched google for 4 hours and still couldn't find a good answer to this question.
    – Evan Plaice
    Jul 8, 2010 at 22:11
  • My pleasure! :) It took me a lot of searching to figure this out, too.
    – Soleil
    Jul 8, 2010 at 22:16
  • one other question. Would I still need to install mercurial on the remote server over SSH?
    – Evan Plaice
    Jul 9, 2010 at 9:25
  • SSH or at the console directly, yes.
    – Soleil
    Jul 9, 2010 at 14:10
  • I'm going to modify one of my tutorials to include your last suggestion, with proper attribution of course :)
    – Tim Post
    Jul 13, 2010 at 2:16

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