Joomla htaccess – Configuration for SEO Friendly URLs

To configure Joomla’s htaccess file for SEO-friendly URLs, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Joomla administration panel.
2. Go to the Global Configuration section.
3. In the Site tab, scroll down to the SEO Settings section.
4. Set Search Engine Friendly URLs to “Yes.”
5. Set Use URL rewriting to “Yes.”
6. Save the changes.
7. Access your website’s root directory using an FTP client or cPanel File Manager.
8. Locate the .htaccess file, and download a copy of it to your computer as a backup.
9. Open the .htaccess file in a text editor.
10. Look for the line that reads “# RewriteBase /”.
11. Uncomment this line by removing the “#” symbol at the beginning of the line.
12. Replace “/joomla” with the name of your website’s root directory, if necessary.
13. Add the following lines to the .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

14. Save the changes to the .htaccess file.
15. Upload the modified .htaccess file back to your website’s root directory.

With these changes, your Joomla site will now use SEO-friendly URLs that are more easily crawled and indexed by search engines.