Only Displaying Directories while accessing pages

New Poster, long time browser here.

I am currently running Apache Server 2.0.52 with PHP 4.3.9.

What I was wondering was how would I go about making urls
such as http://www.some-site.com/dir1/somepg.html look like
http://www.some-site.com/dir1. (Minus the period obviously)

If anyone could help it would be very much appreciated, and
as always, thanks in advance for any help given.

use rewrting, mod_rewrite I think.

Moved to Web Server Configuration

Agreed, mod_rewrite
Check the documentation here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

You may need to enable it on your server in the conf file...
Here's a small guide, might be some help...

I have tried the mod_rewrite, and now have the following in
a .htaccess file in the commission directory.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule Commissions/$ /Bcklshv3/commission/Commissions.php

Now my problem is that each time I try to access the
Commissions.php file I get a HTTP 500 (Internal server error). Any help
on this?

Are you trying to access the file directly, or using http://yourdomain/Commissions/ ?

What I am trying to do is access it through links from other webpages on my site. For example my server name is 3nimd.
So, when I try and access the file the address looks like http://3nimd/Bcklshv3/commission/Commissions.php. Whether
I type this location directly into my address bar, or whether the page is accessed via a hyperlink, as long as I have a
.htaccess file in the directory I receive an HTTP 500 (internal server error) message instead of the page. The very wierd
part of the whole scenario happens when i remove the .htaccess file form the directory. Everything works fine, but then I am faced with the problem that the .htaccess file was trying to fix. Does it make a difference that I am running a Windows 2000 machine, and not a Linux/Unix OS which readily recognizes files that start with the .(dot) prefix like .htaccess. If this is the whole problem then I guess I will have to live with it since the workstation that I am on belongs to the company that I work for. Otherwise, I am completely stumped.

Apache on Windows recognizes .htaccess files, don't worry...

So you get a 500 error when you access thefile using the proper path?
What happens if you try accessing the file to your new mod_rewrite path?

It may help to change all links to the page to link to the mod_rewrite path...

[if using your mod_rewrite path gives a 500 error, your .htaccess may be incorrect]

All signs point to a problem with the .htaccess file, and most likely it's because of the rewrite rule.
Mod_rewrite is powerful, but it's also a little finicky... I would try finding a different pattern to use with RewriteRule.

Also, for clarification, you're sending requests that end in "Commissions/" to "/Bcklshv3/commission/Commissions.php"