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Search Engine Friendly URLs From Joomla Core

Thu, 2006-10-12 20:03 — maxx

In this Joomla tutorial you will learn:

  1. About Joomla URLs. You know that mess of parameters in your address bar? What does it mean? How can you clean it up?
  2. How to enable Joomla's search engine friendly URLs support in the core.
view the tutorial at joomlaphile.com
Come back and leave Questions, Comments, Suggestions for this Joomla Tutorial.
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Fri, 2006-11-24 07:13 — russmarsh

Something wrong here..

Hi, I followed the video... When I came to look at the htaccess.txt file on the server it was already called .htaccess.. Now, whenever I enable SE friendly urls they are SE friendly in the address bar ok but I get "This page cannot be displayed." When I look at the .htaccess file EVERY single line is commented out unlike in the tutorial.. Soooo, Uncomment the same lines I thought..... (WRONG!) When I uncomment the same lines as in the tutorial I then get a "forbidden" message and can't access the site at all... I'm stuck... please help..
Fri, 2006-11-24 07:50 — russmarsh

fixed

I'm no techie but I found that when I uncommented the line in between the ones uncommented in the video it now works for me.. i.e.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(content/|component/) index.php
and not
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(content/|component/) index.php

as per the video... cheers