Search Engine Friendly URLs

**GK User** Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:42 am

When I installed "therealdesign" template the first, second, and third time successfully but no pages or links worked, I checked around and found out that when I UNCHECKED the "Search Engine Friendly URLs" button in the SEO section of the Global Configuration everything worked!

Great - FIRST QUESTION: WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?
SECOND QUESTION: HOW DO I FIX THIS SO I CAN USE THE FEATURE?

I don't want my pages having a mess of script in the titles...I want that feature to work; so what can I do to
alleviate the problem? SEO is extremely important and imperative to this site.

Thx - [email protected]

**teitbite** Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:52 pm

Hi

My first guess would be that You did not renamed file htaccess.txt to .htaccess in joomla root folder or Your server is not supporting mod_rewrite.

**GK User** Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:51 pm

teitbite wrote:Hi

My first guess would be that You did not renamed file htaccess.txt to .htaccess in joomla root folder or Your server is not supporting mod_rewrite.

Is this something I should be doing on every install of a Gavick Template?

**teitbite** Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:12 pm

Hi

This should be done on every installation of joomla itself. This has nothing to do with a template.