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

this is an excerpt from a .htaccess that I use to achieve such a thing, this for example redirects all requests that were not to index.php to that file, of course you then have to check the server-variables within the file you redirect to to see, what was requested.

Or you simply make a rewrite rule, where you use a RegExp like ^.*\/cgi-bin\/.*\.py$ to determine when and what to rewrite. Such a RegExp must be crafted very carefully, so that rewriting only takes place when desired.

    RewriteEngine On   #activate rewriting
    RewriteBase /      #url base for rewriting
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !index.php #requested file is not index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*\.gif$ #requested file is no .gif
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*\.jpg$ #requested file is no .jpg
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d        #is not a directory
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]               #send it all to index.php

The above Example uses RewriteConditions to determine when to rewrite ( .gif's, .jpeg's and index.php are excluded ).

Hmm, so thats a long text already. Hope it was a bit helpful, but you won't be able to avoid learning the syntax of the Apache RewriteEngine.