How to hide “cgi-bin”, “.py”, etc from my URLs?

Question

Brand new to web design, using python. Got Apache up and running, test python script working in cgi-bin directory. Get valid results when I type in the URL explicitly: \".../

Answer 1

The python way of writing web applications is not cgi-bin. It is by using WSGI.

WSGI is a standard interface between web servers and Python web applications or frameworks. The PEP 0333 defines it.

There are no disadvantages in using it instead of CGI. And you'll gain a lot. Beautiful URLs is just one of the neat things you can do easily.

Also, writing a WSGI application means you can deploy on any web server that supports the WSGI interface. Apache does so by using mod_wsgi.

You can configure it in apache like that:

WSGIScriptAlias /myapp /usr/local/www/wsgi-scripts/myapp.py

Then all requests on http://myserver.domain/myapp will go to myapp.py's application callable, including http://myserver.domain/myapp/something/here.

example myapp.py:

def application(environ, start_response):
    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-type', 'text/plain')])
    return ['Hello World!']