{{tag>joomla sef seo rewrite htaccess guide}} {{howhard>1}}
====== Joomla Enable SEF ======
To enable SEO for your Joomla site:

  * Login to administration (i.e. https://domain.tld/administration)
  * In the top left click on System and then Global Configuration
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  * In the SEO Settings section enable "Search Engine Friendly URLs" & "Use URL Rewriting"
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  * Enabling "Adds Suffix to URL" will add .html to most pages (this will depend on the MIME type), for example https://domain.tld/index.html or https://domain.tld/index.php (<wrap em>Not Recomended</wrap>)
  * Enabling "Unicode Aliases" will use the exact text in the alias of each object instead of using transliteration for non ANSI aliases. (<wrap em>Not Recomended</wrap>)

===== Create .htaccess =====
You will need to create or modify .htaccess in your plan.

==== Command Line ====
After you login:
<sxh>
cd public_html
touch .htaccess
cat htaccess.txt  >> .htaccess
</sxh>

Please note that this will just append the contents of the default Joomla htaccess.txt to the current .htaccess if it exists or create a new one if it does not exist

==== cPanel ====
  * Go to the File Manager
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  * Go to the public_html directory
  *  From the top right click on Settings
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  *  On the Pop Up make sure the option **Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)** is Selected
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  *  Open the htaccess.txt file (Right Click -> Edit -> Edit) and select its contents <key>CTRL+'A'</key> and copy them <key>CTRL+'C'</key>
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  *  Close the Editor from the top Right button (Close)
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  *  Open the .htaccess file and paste the contents you copied in the end of the content in the file <key>CTRL+V</key>
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  *  Click on Save Changes on the top right
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This is the default htaccess for Joomla 3+ {{ :joomla:htaccess.txt |}} if you need it.