So after reading this post (thank you for posting it — it was a big help), I opened the solution file with a hex editor, inserted EF BB BF at the beginning of the file, and saved the file. After that, the solution file opened just fine by double-clicking on it.

Yes, absolutely. There are three ways to use NuGet, and I’m not going to assume anything about your technical ability, so if my answer is too simplistic, or overly complex, just let me know!

Firstly, I’d point out that for the vast majority of users there is no need to setup your own NuGet feed. The only reason you’d need to is if you want to host your own private packages, or your employer doesn’t want developers to use the full public feed that’s built-in to the package manager in Visual Studio.

If you do need your own feed, there are three ways you can go about this.

• Firstly, you can just use a folder on your hard drive as a feed.
• Secondly, there’s a NuGet package on the public feed called NuGet.Server which is a simple web application which just serves .nupkg files which are dropped into a certain folder. Nothing fancy. Instructions for doing this and the first method can be found here.
• Finally, there’s a full blown clone of the NuGet gallery website which you can setup. Details instructions for doing so can be found here.

I took the final approach, and it worked well for me.

Thanks for this!

I tested this on a fresh machine and managed to get the same error message when the Mercurial Python 2.6 Package was not installed. To get the message about an incomplete set of HTTP headers is good news as you’re on the right track… it means that Python is being called from IIS successfully. If you want to see more detail on a Python error, you can uncomment the line: import cgitb; cgitb.enable() in index.py / hgweb.cgi. However, in this specific case, it yields little or no extra info.

First thing that could have caught you out… the Mercurial Python package requires Python 2.6. The current version of Python 2 is Python 2.7.1, but this is no good for our purposes. As for Python 3, forget it for now! So, ensure that you went to the download page I linked and get hold of Python 2.6.6.

Next, are you certain that you installed “Mercurial 1.8.2 Python 2.6 Package” and not some other version of Mercurial? It’s the eighth item in the list on http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads/. To check this, open a command prompt and cd to c:\Python26\Scripts (assuming you installed Python to the default install location). This folder should contain a batch file called hg.bat. If it does not, then you haven’t installed the right Mercurial package. Typing “.\hg.bat –version” in this location should report “Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.8.2)”.

If you’ve installed Python 2.6 to a non-default location, or not used the Windows installer, you might have to tell the Mercurial package where to find your installation of Python 2.6. However, using most of the default options, the Mercurial Python package should auto-detect your installation of Python 2.6 and install to the right location.

Hope this helps, let me know how you get on with it!

HTTP Error 502.2 – Bad Gateway The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are “Traceback (most recent call last): File “C:\hgrepo\hgweb.cgi”, line 15, in from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable() ImportError: No module named mercurial “

Any ideas what’s going on?