In this tutorial we will enable our Joomla 1.0 web site to work with Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs. In order for SEF URLs to work your web server needs to be apache and you need to have mod_rewrite enabled.
- Navigate to Site > Global Configuration
- Then you will need to select the SEO tab.
- Select the Yes radio box next to the Search Engine Friendly URLs option.
- Joomla will alert you that you need to change the name of your file. When you initially upload Joomla it is named htaccess.txt. For SEF to work you will need to name it .htaccess.
- Click the OK button
- Click Save
- We have now enabled everything in Joomla. Let's go rename the file and get it setup to work properly.
- Open the htaccess.txt file.
- If you have Joomla installed in a folder (www.site.com/joomla) you will need to edit the RewriteBase line. It should read RewriteBase /joomla
- Save the file
- Then rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess.
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