[Ur] mod_fcgid and Ur/Web

[Adam Chlipala]

Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> The convention for FastCGI deployment
> is that you setup some mod_rewrite rules which rewrite:
>
>      /internal/path
>
> to
>
>      /script.fcgi/internal/path
>
> The FastCGI itself sees the second path, and essentially every
> other FastCGI application knows that it should refer to PATH_INFO
> (which is equal to /internal/path) not REQUEST_URI (which is
> /scripts.fcgi/internal/path) for routing.

Why not just give "script.fcgi" a nicer name like "myApp"?  You can't 
use .htaccess to tell Apache which files are FastCGI scripts?  Or is the 
issue that the paths still wind up too long?