Does Fossil-Scm have the ability to add new ticket statuses?
Yes. The 'status' field of the ticket table is a text field, so basically, you can use any status you want. You can change the list of statuses available in the ticket page's drop-down box: go to the Admin page click tickets click Common. On that page, you can edit...
can't open fossil repo over web
Instead of www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/repos/web/site try www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/repos.cgi/index Reading your ( very long ) question again, I suggest trying www.homeserver.net/cgi-bin/fos_repos.cgi/index ...
Fossil: not authorized to write
You are receiving that error because you do not have permissions to modify the remote repository. When you do not supply any credentials, your login name (pc in this case) is used and the pc user probably doesn't exist in the remote repository (or you'd have received a password prompt)....
Use Fossil for system files?
System configuration files stored in /etc, /var or /usr/local/etc can generally only edited by the root user. But since root has complete access to the whole system, a mistaken command there can have dire consequences. For that reason I generally use another location to keep edited configuration files, a directory...
Full text search in Fossil
In versions before 1.31, the search command only searched check-in comments. As of 1.31, it also searches tickets, wiki, and documentation contents. But it (still) does not search source code, unless you specify your source files as searchable documentation. As Registered User rightly says, searching needs to be enabled explicitly...