Using Joomla Core SEF

Enabling Joomla Core SEF URLs

To make the URLs look nicer, you can enable Joomla core SEF:

• Go to Joomla Global Configuration, and on first tab set Search Engine Friendly URLs and Use Apache mod_rewrite to Yes. 'Add suffix to URLs' is optional.

• Next go to the root folder of your site and rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess

URLs of Listings (Articles)

• example of the default non-SEF URL:
  • http://example.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=8:smartphones&id=8:nokia-5800-xpressmusic
• if you enabled Joomla Core SEF, the url of that listing should look like:
  • http://example.com/products/8-smartphones/9-samsung-i900-omnia or
  • http://example.com/smartphones/8-nokia-5800-xpressmusic
• if you enabled Joomla Core SEF but your URLs have /component/content/ in URL like this:
  • http://example.com/component/content/8-smartphones/9-samsung-i900-omnia that means that you haven't created the Required Joomla Menu Items

JReviews menu item:

• http://example.com/index.php?option=com_jreviews&Itemid=6

Jreviews click2search pages (tags):

• http://example.com/index.php?option=com_jreviews&Itemid=6&url=tag/brand/Nokia_m6/

JReviews menu item:

• http://example.com/products

Jreviews click2search pages (tags):

• http://example.com/products/tag/brand/Nokia_m6/

With Joomla Core SEF it is not possible to remove ID numbers from URLs. For that, you need to use one of Joomla SEF extensions like sh404SEF or SEF Advance (only those two are supported by JReviews).

We recommended using Joomla's Core SEF to minimize possible performance impact of 3rd part SEF extensions.