This page gives some nice but advanced tricks for a moin Apache setup with php and .htaccess. The directives
on this page assume that you have knowledge about Apache configuration, newbies should
stick to the basic setup. This requires the Apache module “mod_rewrite” for rewriting (which should be standard).
mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server. With mod_python you can write web-based applications in Python that will run many times faster than traditional CGI and will have access to advanced features such as ability to retain database connections and other data between hits and access to Apache internals.