If you care about your website, and want it to do well, then SEF URLs are vital. They allow you to place keywords into your URL making the site more Search Enginge Friendly. This tutorial teaches you how to create SEF URLs in Joomla!
How Do I Create SEF URLs in Joomla!?
Once you've installed Joomla, goto Global Configuration and tick the box which says 'Search Engine Friendly URLs'. Save.
If successful, your URLs will now have changed from:
www.example.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=29
To:
www.example.com/index.php/joomla-startup
How do you Delete the Text index.php?
In your URL you still have index.php still on e
very page. This can, to some, look annoying. To get rid of it you need to goto Global Configuration and tick the box to start using Apache mod_rewrite. Save.
Goto the root folder of your website and rename 'htaccess.txt' to '.htaccess'.
If successful, your URLs will now have changed from.
www.example.com/index.php/joomla-startup
To:
www.example.com/joomla-startup
Troubleshooting and F.A.Q's
The SEF URLs don't work
Open configuration.php, in Notepad, and then enter your website address under '$live_site'.
Renaming the htaccess.txt file causes my site error out
Once you've renamed the htaccess.txt file your server can error out. If this happens, it is likely to be caused by your host already having mod_rewrite enabled. To correct this issue open the htaccess.txt file and read the tutorial insid.
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