Question

I have been at this for a couple of months now, on and off. I start looking for the solution and i quickly get frustrated with the incomplete or overly complicated answers i keep finding.

All I want to do is to convert this: mysite.com/component/content/article/17-category/61-article-name.html

Into this: mysite.com/category/article-name.html

There has to be a way that wont make my brain fall out of the skull.

I want an answer from those who have done this before, what is the simplest way you know of doing this?

Answer 1

You can use a SEF component for Joomla like sh404SEF or aceSEF or JoomSEF. Personally I like aceSEF however they have a footer watermark on each page. You can pay for the version that doesn t.

These will generate SEF urls for you, however if you still don t like them you can go into the component and set the urls for each link manually.

Answer 2

You don t need to install any extension to do that. If you are using Joomla 1.5, go to Site -> Global Configuration and turn on the 3 options that you have on the right side :

Search Engine Friendly URLs - YES

Use Apache mod_rewrite - YES

Add suffix to URLs - YES

Then rename htaccess.txt that you have in your joomla folder to .htaccess

You should have mod_rewrite on your Apache server to get that working.

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