{"id":400,"date":"2009-06-28T08:57:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:47","slug":"joomla-sef-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/28\/joomla-sef-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Joomla and search engine friendly (SEF) URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/abbr>\n

I have recently installed Joomla! 1.5 on server hosted by inmotionhosting.com<\/a>. I use an 1.0 version of Joomla for another web page on a different server, and I would like to migrate to the new version of Joomla, and possibly change my web hosting company. I created the Joomla installation in a new empty directory (joomla.workingagenda.com<\/a>), to play around. I did not install the sample data, but created a few dummy entries to experiment. My first problem was that I had trouble getting the search engine friendly URLs to work.<\/p>\n

From the Joomla Global Configuration<\/strong> menu, I found the SEO Settings, on the right hand column. In the default installation, they are turned off.<\/p>\n

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The default SEO Settings<\/p><\/div>\n

I tried simply changing the “Search Engine Friendly URL’s” setting from no to yes.
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\"With

With search engine friendly URL's option turned to yes.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this did not work with inmotionhosting.com. I received an error message, that the file was not found:
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\"The

The 404 - Component not found error message<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Next, I tried turning on the Use Apache mod_rewrite<\/strong> option.
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\"Turning

Turning on the SEO setting for Apache mod_rewrite <\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

This also did not work.<\/strong> At this point, after trying a few other things that did not work, I searched on forums, and found that I needed to look in the directory where Joomla was installed, and find the file htaccess.txt<\/strong>. I made a copy of this file, and renamed it .htaccess<\/strong>. At this point the SEF URL’s worked find, but they are a bit longer than I like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have recently installed Joomla! 1.5 on server hosted by inmotionhosting.com. I use an 1.0 version of Joomla for another web page on a different server, and I would like to migrate to the new version of Joomla, and possibly change my web hosting company. I created the Joomla installation in a new empty directory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[43,44,42,41,39,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}