![]() # Support Clean (aka Search Engine Friendly) URLs Please add the next code to your server (vhost) configuration in the nf file:.This has been tested on Joomla 1.5 with IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 with no problems so far. Pattern field: ^( )/?$ Ignore case ON Action type: Rewrite Rewrite URL: index.php/ web.config In the Joomla config turn on both the SEF and Apache mod_rewrite, next create a rule under IIS URL Rewrite: Regular expressions, wildcards or exact matches are all supported. The interface is largely self-explanatory. If the IIS URL Rewrite module is installed, your website manager will have a tool for "URL Rewrite", visible in the IIS Manager's view of your site's configurable IIS modules. It is a free download and a Microsoft product. This functionality depends on the presence of the IIS URL Rewrite Module, which does not come with Windows. You can create the file yourself or use the GUI in the IIS7 Manager. If you have a server running IIS 7 and PHP, you can take advantage of IIS's own internal URL rewriting by using a web.config file similar to the one listed below. Match ^(/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/*)$ Skip 1Įnable an UrlToolkit rule for a virtual host via the UseToolkit setting: Use the following UrlToolkit rule to enable clean URLs on the Hiawatha webserver: It operates directly on the HTML and does not require a special tag. This plugin adds SEF support to links in your Joomla articles. Open the Plugin Manager and enable the System - SEF plugin.Search engines do not seem to care if your URLs end in. There are different opinions on whether this is necessary or even useful. If you think this necessary, enable Add suffix to URLs and Save.If mod_rewrite cannot be enabled, leave this option off.If necessary, uncomment the line and restart the Apache web server. If it is not enabled and you have access to the file apache/conf/nf, open that file and check if the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so is uncommented.If this option causes errors, please see How to check if mod rewrite is enabled on your server. This option uses the Apache mod_rewrite function to eliminate the "index.php" portion of the URL.Ĭheck if your site works correctly. Enable the Use Apache mod_rewrite/URL rewriting option and Save.Log on to your Back-end and open the Global Configuration.If Joomla is installed in its own folder, the enter the Joomla folder name after the forward slash. Uncomment RewriteBase / (remove the first character, #). Rename the file "htaccess.txt" in your Joomla!'s base folder to ".htaccess".If a step fails, do not continue until you have solved the problem. Please follow them in the order they are presented here. ![]() htaccess tutorial found on The Apache Software Foundation website for additional information. ![]() ![]() htaccess is enabled if you do not have access to your site's configuration files. In the section of your virtual host configuration file or in the main ( nf) configuration file you must have something similar to the example below enabling overrides:ĪllowOverride All Options=. htaccess file in your Joomla! root directory will be ignored or cause an error. You must make sure overrides are enabled or the. htaccess is Enabled Ĭheck that your Apache config file allows. Visit Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on IIS and Category:Search Engine Friendly URLs for more articles.Īpache Verify. Only the most popular web servers have been included on this page. Ask your hosting provider for more information if you are uncertain. If you are using shared hosting, it is probably Apache. The procedure for enabling Search Engine Friendly URLs differs depending on the web server you are using. Creating and processing SEF URLs is therefore referred to as routing, and the relevant code is called a router. Internally, the local part of a SEF URL (the part after the domain name) is called a route. The SEF URLs follow a certain fixed pattern, but the user can define a short descriptive text (alias) for each segment of the URL. This does not depend on URL rewriting executed by the web server, so it works even if Joomla! runs a server other than Apache with the mod_rewrite module. Since version 1.5, Joomla! is capable of creating and parsing URLs in any format, including SEF URLs. Search engine friendly (SEF), human-readable or clean URLs are URLs that make sense to both humans and search engines because they explain the path to the particular page they point to.
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