HOW to enable Search Engine Friendly URLs in Joomla
If you are installing Joomla through Fantastico and want to enable Search Engine Friendly URLs, please follow the steps below.
1) Log into Joomla Control Panel -> Global Configuration -> SEO (tab)
2) Set Search Engine Friendly URLs to Yes
3) Open the file. Htaccess (in the root directory where Joomla in the install) using the file manager
4) Uncomment (remove the hash mark “#”) on the following lines:
Line # 51: Options FollowSymLinks
Line # 56: RewriteEngine On
Line # 71: RewriteCond% (REQUEST_FILENAME) \-f
Line # 72: RewriteCond% (REQUEST_FILENAME) \-d
Line # 74: RewriteCond% (REQUEST_URI) (/ | \. Htm | \. Php | \. Html |/[^.]*)$ [NC]
Line # 75: RewriteRule ^ (content / | component /) index.php
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