Roland's Blog

Use "tee" as editor:

$ (echo "Daily autocommit. Stats:"; hg diff | diffstat) | hg commit --config ui.editor=tee
Daily autocommit. Stats:
 b/bar |    1 +
 foo   |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

Though it's trivial to use IkiWiki with nginx you need some tricks to make it work together with the httpauth module and the 404 module.

To make it short, here's a working example (as in "works for me"). The blue lines are required for httpauth while the green lines are required for 404.