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SEF News URLs?

Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:12 pm
by toolman
Hi there,

Is it possible to have search engine friendly urls for news articles?

Thanks

Re: SEF News URLs?

Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 4:39 pm
by Dr.CSS
Have you searched the forum for this, it's been discussed many times, turn on pretty URLs if you want them to look nice, default URLs are search friendly...

Re: SEF News URLs?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:55 pm
by toolman
Hi,

Where can I turn on Pretty URLs?

Thanks

Re: SEF News URLs?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:27 pm
by Wishbone

Re: SEF News URLs?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:14 pm
by toolman
Thanks.

I have managed to get my URLs to display as friendly URLs, but all the pages display Cannot Be Displayed when visited.

Any ideas what could cause this?

I have created the .htaccess and modified the config.php file.

Re: SEF News URLs?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:33 pm
by Wishbone
Is your host running Apache? Does it have mod-rewrite turned on?

Another option is:

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$config['url_rewriting'] = 'internal';
Not quite as pretty, but better than the alternative.

Also, some hosts (such as GoDaddy) read the .htaccess every 30 minutes or so, so it might not work until things settle.