Serving requests for non-existent directories. (with for example mason)

Hi,

I've run into the following problem again and again.
I wish serve files from non-existent directories.
This may seem a little strange since there will not
be any files there. So look at the following idea:

There's a request like
http://some.server.com/town/street/house/number.html
it could be
http://www.paint.com/newyork/42nd/thebigblueone/23.html
or whatever.

Now in my website I don't want to have all the possible streets and houses
as directories. Previously I solved this by rewriting the urls to for
example:
http://www.paint.com/site.script?city=newyork
&street=42nd&house=thebigblueone&number=23
But the rewriting quickly becomes complex, inflexible or both.
Now if I had some way of generating the correct responce of the right
handler were called, how do I configure apache to let the handler and not
respond with a requested url not found?

The system we use at work does it, but I'm currently looking more into
mason dhandlers, but how do you configure apache 1.x for that?

I hope that was clear enough,

thanks.

Myriad <myriad@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> handler were called, how do I configure apache to let the handler and not
> respond with a requested url not found?

Use a ScriptAlias directive to handle the request to a script and
process the data in your CGI. See how mailman does it.

Davide