Actually it is easy to enable Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs in Joomla. You only need to do a few steps to enable it.

1. First of all, you need to rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess in your Joomla root directory
2. Then login to your Joomla back-end administrator page
3. Go to Site -> Global Configuration from the main menu
4. Click on the SEO tab and then set the radio button to “Yes” on Search Engine Friendly URLs option

Note:
To able to run your Joomla site with SEF feature turn on your server must enable Apache’s mod_rewrite module.

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After several weeks without any words about OpenSEF continuity. Several days ago, Predator a.k.a Marko (OpenSEF developer) has posted a message in OpenSEF forum regarding OpenSEF project continuity.

Marko clearly stated that he will continue developing the OpenSEF component, he also wrote that the main reason he didn’t post any message in the forum for so long is because he had just moved from Berlin to Bavaria in south Germany and he still haven’t got a steady internet connection in his new place. Read more…

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Pathauto is one of Drupal modules you have to use if you care so much about Search Engine Optimalization (SE0). Pathauto module will automatically generates path aliases for your Drupal site or also know as Search Engine Friendly url.

Pathauto can generate Drupal nodes, categories, terms, user, forum path aliases without requiring user to manually type the url path alias. You can even specify how Pathauto generates the path alias for your site. You can a path looks like www.yoursite.com/this-is-the-node-path.html or even like www.yoursite/category-name/term-name/this-is-the-node-path.html.

To use it first download the Pathauto module from here. Activate Drupal Clean URL feature from administer -> Site configuration -> Clean URLs, click on the “Run the clean URL test” link, if the test works enable the Clean URLs and click on the Save configuration button. Upload the modules to /sites/all/modules/ (assuming you’re using Drupal 5 or above). Activate the modules from the administer -> Site building -> Modules menu. After that, configure how pathauto will operate in administer -> Site configuration -> Pathauto menu. Read more…

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For those of you who use OpenSEF in your Joomla site, you probably know that OpenSEF could make your site load much slower (and i mean really slow). This is caused by the huge OpenSEF query loads in MySQL.

Several days ago, I came to visit OpenSEF forum to check if the developers have released a new version of OpenSEF but apparently the new version still hasn’t release yet. Many OpenSEF users have been waiting this new release for ages, but still we have know clue when it will going to be release.

But, may be I was lucky at that time. Because I found an interesting thread on the forum in which one of the member has made a patch for OpenSEF that will make your Joomla + OpenSEF site load much quicker. I’ve tested this patch on one of my Joomla site which has more 500 articles and I was shock. Read more…

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