Mercurial内置了一个轻量级的WEB服务器，通过它你可以用浏览器来浏览你的代码仓库，或者允许远程的电脑从你的电脑上获取代码。要使用这个功能，只需要简单的运行：
$ hg serve
然后用你的浏览器打开 http://localhost:8000/。
The built-in web server is missing some features found in other web servers, including access control, authentication, SSL, etc. These are especially useful if you want to be able to securely push to a web-based repository. Thus, if you want to make a more permanent server, you should probably use a CGI-based server.
接下来介绍详细使用hg的HTTP服务器的选项:
bash-2.05$ hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.2.1)
Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
bash-2.05$ hg help serve
hg serve [OPTION]...
export the repository via HTTP
Start a local HTTP repository browser and pull server.
By default, the server logs accesses to stdout and errors to
stderr. Use the "-A" and "-E" options to log to files.
options:
-A --accesslog name of access log file to write to
-d --daemon run server in background
--daemon-pipefds used internally by daemon mode
-E --errorlog name of error log file to write to
-p --port port to listen on (default: 8000)
-a --address address to listen on (default: all interfaces)
--prefix prefix path to serve from (default: server root)
-n --name name to show in web pages (default: working dir)
--webdir-conf name of the webdir config file (serve more than one repo)
--pid-file name of file to write process ID to
--stdio for remote clients
-t --templates web templates to use
--style template style to use
-6 --ipv6 use IPv6 in addition to IPv4
--certificate SSL certificate file
use "hg -v help serve" to show global options
bash-2.05$An init script to start and stop mercurial's built in http server.
bash-2.05$ cat hg.init
#!/sbin/sh
#
# Startup script for mercurial server.
#
# Change following ines
APP_BIN=/usr/bin/hg
SRC=/export/src
SRCNAME=" package source"
# Path to PID file of running mercurial process.
PID_FILE=/var/adm/hg.pid
state=$1
case "$state" in
'start')
echo "Mecurial Server service starting."
(cd ${SRC} ;${APP_BIN} serve --name "${SRCNAME}" -d -p 8001 --pid-file ${PID_FILE})
;;
'stop')
if [ -f "${PID_FILE}" ]; then
PID=`cat "${PID_FILE}"`
if [ "${PID}" -gt 1 ]; then
kill -TERM ${PID}
echo "Stopping the Mercurial service PID=${PID}."
else
echo Bad PID for Mercurial -- \"${PID}\"
fi
else
echo No PID file recorded for mercurial
fi
;;
*)
echo "$0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
bash-2.05$