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Answer
by: Stuart Pierce, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support
Joomla is one
of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the
planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple
websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla can be used to
easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and
images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.
Joomla is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. It is
available for installation through the Aplus.Net Control Panel for the
following Unix-based hosting plans:
WHAT
DOES THE TERM “SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY URL” MEAN?
With the
Joomla CMS, which is founded on PHP scripting and MySQL database, your
website URLs are dynamically created during runtime. A typical
dynamically created URL looks like this: http://yourdomain.com/page.php?id=about§ion=me
The reason
for this URL not to be Search Engine Friendly is the question mark and
the ampersand. Most Search Engines will not index any pages which have
such characters in the URL. As a result, these pages will not be listed
in the search engine results page. The good news is that the Joomla CMS
is able to automatically modify your website URLs and make them Search
Engine Friendly. Here is how to achieve that:
- Start by
logging into the Aplus.Net Control Panel at http://cp.aplus.net
using your Registration Number and Customer
Password.
- Select Web
Hosting from the top navigation bar.
- Next, select Hosted
Domains and click on Manage Hosted Domains.
- Now, select the
hosted domain that you’d like to manage.
- Click the Design
tab.
- Click the Joomla
icon.
- Click the Config
button.
- Click the Global
Configuration button. You will be redirected to the Joomla
Administration.
- Click on the SEO
tab. “SEO” stands for Search
Engine Optimization.
- Change the
setting for Search Engine Friendly URLs to Yes
using the respective radio button.
- You will get
a warning message to rename a certain htaccess.txt
file to .htaccess. Click OK.
- Then, click
the Apply button from the top-right navigation.
- You have
to rename the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess.
This file is located in the directory you have initially installed the
Joomla CMS. There are two possibilities:
- The
htaccess.txt file is located in your main /html
directory, if you have installed Joomla at http://yourdomain.com
- The
htaccess.txt file is located in the joomla/html directory,
if you have installed Joomla at http://joomla.yourdomain.com
Login
to your FTP space and rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess.
- Now,
you have to edit the .htaccess
file. Open the file for editing and locate the
line #RewriteBase /.
Remove the comment so that the line remains as RewriteBase /.
Finally, save the file.
Now,
your dynamically created website URLs will look like this: http://yourdomain.com/id,about/section,me/.
This will ensure that Search Engines will index your entire site.
*An
extensive help section for the Joomla CMS is available at:
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