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Just learned about this handy tip for Apache:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/book/([^/]*)/([^/]*) /cgi-bin/book.cgi?author=$1&subject=$2 [PT]

It rewrites a URL so it can be arguments to a cgi program so something like

http://server/path/blah

can be parsed as

http://server/someDirectory/someCGI.cgi?path=blah

Handy!