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A basic overview on enabling the search engine friendly URLs for Joomla 1.5

To enable the SEF for Joomla:

• Login to admin
• Choose the “Global Configuration” option
• You will now see the SEO settings on the right

SEF Url’s without apache mod_rewrite

To enable SEF Url’s on a server which does not support apache mod_rewrite, change the search engine friendly URLs checkbox from No to Yes

Save the changes by selecting the save button.

The component name and item id is now removed from the Url and replaced with “index.php/frontpage”

SEF Url’s using apache mod_rewrite

Most hosting companies include mod_rewrite support as part of their web hosting package.

Using this option is the most common approach when using SEF Urls

To enable SEF Urls with Mod_Rewrite you need to do the following.

1. Using an FTP client access the directory where you have installed Joomla 1.5
2. You will see a file called htaccess.txt
3. Before you enable the SEF Urls you need to rename the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess
4. Rename this file using your ftp client.
5. In your Joomla SEO settings change the buttons for both the search engine friendly URLs and Use Apache mod_rewrite from No to Yes
6. The settings will look like this:

Now save your changes.

Your URLs will now look like this:

http://creativedigiworks.com/services

Add Suffix to URLs

Joomla 1.5 also supports the option to add the suffix .html at the end:

enable the suffix url option:

Change  button next to Add suffix to Urls from No to Yes

Your URLs will now look like this:

http://www.creativedigiworks.com/services.html

ITS THAT EASY!

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