To enable search engine friendly URLs on your website, perform the following steps:
1. Start FileZilla or any other FTP browser of your choice.
2. Connect to your hosting and select the file
config.php
for editing. (You can also copy the file to your local disk for editing and upload it after the following changes have been made).3. Search
config.php
for the section "URL Settings" and replace:$config['url_rewriting'] = 'none';
with
$config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite';
4. Close, save, and upload the file back to your web hosting.
5. Further, using FileZilla or any other FTP browser of your choice, open the
doc
directory.6. Move the
htaccess.txt
file found in thedoc
directory to the root directory of your website (it is the same directory where the fileconfig.php
is present).7. Rename the moved file to
.htaccess
(the period at the beginning belongs to the new filename!).8. View your website in a browser, click on the top navigation...