Can I set up virtual hosts web folders to use extensionless .cgi files?

As a complete beginner to the Server Admin game, I'm having trouble trying to please a client who wishes to run cgi files from their 'web' directory without using extensions and without using a cgi-bin. I have looked into ScriptAlias, but the directive seems to want to only work on a directory in the url path (ie after the 'web').

Anyone who can help me with this (in fairly straightfoward terms) will surely be blessed with a long life and short troubles!

>> a client who wishes to run cgi files from their 'web' directory without using extensions and without using a cgi-bin

Set his <VirtualHost> like so:

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot "/www/vhosts/yourclient.com/htdocs"
ServerName www.yourclient.com
ServerAlias yourclient.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourclient.com
ScriptAlias /anything/ "/www/vhosts/yourclient.com/cgi-bin/"
</VirtualHost>

With this setup, he can put whatever extensionless CGI scripts to the absolute file system path of his cgi-bin directory. Say he hates the name cgi-bin for whatever lame reasons, then just change that to:

ScriptAlias /anything/ "/www/vhosts/yourclient.com/my_kickass_CGI_scripts/"

When someone visits http://yourclient.com/anything/guest.cgi, that's really executing /www/vhosts/yourclient.com/my_kickass_CGI_scripts/guest.cgi.

If he wants the /anything part to be changed instead, then set it to whatever:

ScriptAlias /whatever/ "/www/vhosts/yourclient.com/my_kickass_CGI_scripts/"

There is something you need to educate this client:
1) With such setup, he can run extensionless CGI scripts in his "my_kickass_CGI_scripts" directory
2) Nothing else other than CGI scripts can be resided in my_kickass_CGI_scripts directory or below.
- no .htaccess, no .htpasswd, no php script, no image, no anything other than true CGI scripts.
3) If he wants to store dat file or whatever under his ScriptAlias'ed directory, use another directory instead.

e.g.

<Directory "/www/vhosts/yourclient.com/non_scriptalias_cgi_dir">
Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
</Directory>