Joomla 3.x. How to enable and use SEF URLs

This tutorial is going to show you how to enable and use SEF URLs on Joomla 3.x based site.

Joomla 3.x. How to enable and use SEF URLs

To have the website better indexed by search engines and make it easier to remember site URLs, Search Engine Friendly URLs have to be enabled. To enable SEF URLs for your Joomla website, follow the steps below:

1. Log into your Joomla admin panel and navigate to System -> Global Configuration menu:

   

2. You will see the following options under Site tab:

   

   1. Search Engine Friendly URLs – select whether the URLs are optimized for search engines or not. If set it to Yes, the URLs will be changed to something similar like http://domain.com/index.php/blog

   2. Use URL rewriting option allows you to remove /index.php pat from the URL. Option is available for Apache or IIS 7 only.

      If you use Apache server make sure mod_rewrite is installed and enabled on your hosting account. Connect to your FTP server , rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess.

      If you use IIS 7 server make sure IIS URL Rewrite Module is enabled for your hosttring account. Rename web.config.txt file to web.config before activating Use URL rewriting option.

      The URLs will change to something similar like http://domain.com/blog

   3. Adds Suffix to URL – if Yes, the system will add suffix to the URL based on the document type. .html will be added at the end of URL.E.g. http://domain.com/blog.html

   4. Unicode Aliases option allows you to select between transliteration or unicode aliases. Translitertion is default.

   5. Include Site Name in Page Titles setting allows you to set whether your Site Name is included in your site title or not. You can set it to any of the following settings:

      • No

      • Before

      • After

3. Click Save button and refresh your site to see the changes.

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:

Joomla 3.x. How to enable and use SEF URLs