Question

How would I accomplish the following via mod rewrite in the .htaccess

http://www.example.com/foo/test.php => http://www.example.com/foo

Also, this rewrite does not need to be reflected in the browser’s address bar, i.e. doesnt need to be a redirect.

Answer 1

To match exactly it would look like this:

RewriteRule foo/test.php /foo [L]

If you want to match against only the test.php part, it would look like this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/test.php /$1 [L]

Either rule will take a request www.example.com/foo/test.php and internally rewrite it to /foo and serve /foo to the browser.