To enable the SEF URLs. Go to the sellacious admin panel; For enabling the SEF urls, go to the settings then select teh global configuration. You can specify the URL alias segment from here. Click on the save button to save the details.
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Search Engine Friendly Urls

Search engine friendly (SEF) or clean URLs are website URLs that make sense to both humans and search engines because they explain the path to the particular page they point to. By default in Joomla! 2.5, some basic SEF urls are enabled by default, that’s why you can see short versions of Joomla links in menu, can CMS converts the URLs from the native Joomla! format to the SEF format.

The first parameter that you should always make sure is switched on is Search Engine Friendly URL's. This will achieve the readable URL's we just discussed, but luckily this is the default setting. Secondly, we need to consider the Use URL Rewriting parameter. SEF URL extensions go from very simple to very complex. If you are moving an existing, well-established site to Joomla, you would be well advised to use one of these to mimic your current URL structure so that you can keep your URLs unchanged. Joomla 1.5 SEO Extensions.

In following guide we will try to show you how to improve links alias and avoid common mistakes.

How to remove index.php from the Joomla! URLs

By default after Quickstart installation all URL contain the “index.php” in their URLs. Like in this example:

The procedure for enabling Search Engine Friendly URLs differs depending on the web server you are using. Because this functionality depends on the presence of the Rewrite Module. Please follow them in the order they are presented here:

Use FTP to rename the file “htaccess.txt” in your Joomla!’s base folder to “.htaccess”.
This step may not be necessary. Open .htaccess in a text editor. Uncomment RewriteBase / (remove the first character, #). If Joomla is installed in its own folder, the enter the Joomla folder name after the backslash. e.g. RewriteBase /yourjoomlafolder.
Note: Not all hosting providers allow you to use .htaccess files.
Log on to your Back-end and open the Global Configuration –> Site tab.
Enable the Use URL rewriting option and Save. This option converts the URLs from the native Joomla! format to the SEF format.
If front-end gives you an error messages when checking out the frontend of the site, it’s possible your web server doesn’t support the advanced
requirements of the second option (using mod_rewrite) – you have two options leave this option off and/or ask your hosting provider support what can you do.

How to remove “gk_TemplateName_quickstart_J30” from URL

All Gavick quickstart packages are inside folder so probably that why if you copy whole unzipped folder you may get similar URL:

How to fix it? In most cases, next time, we suggest to avoid it simply copy all content from this folder into root folder. Also if your website is working now, you can also move files from “gk_templatename_quickstart_J3” folder into root folder. That’s why we strongly suggest to use File Explorer from Hosting Panel. After copied please edit configuration.php file and remove unnecessary now path folder name from those lines:

How to specify my own value for Alias

If you do not like the alias provided by Demo content from GK Quickstart, you can enter a new value in Menu Manager for all items. Using good keywords in your URL may helps search engine optimization. You can do so by including those keywords in your title, and allowing Joomla! to create the alias, or by creating the alias yourself manually if it’s possible. It is important to note creating a menu item is the only way for a Joomla! user to define a route that leads to a specific component. This routing mechanism is therefore not as flexible as users sometimes require and sometimes request some tips. Since the first segment of a route is always a menu item alias, the system immediately knows which component’s router must be used to parse it.

Ok, lets check again on our example URL:

As you can see all parts are from Menu Manager settings.

Check alias names next to Items names, there you will find “hikashop” and “product-page”.
So if you will add “Product page” as a parent item not child like in this above example your URL will be shorten, will be without “hikashop”.

It is, however, possible to create a route without showing it on the site (in a menu). An often-applied method is to create a menu item in a menu that isn’t displayed anywhere. Such a menu is usually called a hidden menu.

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Search engine friendly (SEF), human-readable or clean URLs are URLs that make sense to both humans and search engines because they explain the path to the particular page they point to. Since version 1.5, Joomla! is capable of creating and parsing URLs in any format, including SEF URLs. This does not depend on URL rewriting executed by the web server, so it works even if Joomla! runs a server other than Apache with the mod_rewrite module. The SEF URLs follow a certain fixed pattern, but the user can define a short descriptive text (alias) for each segment of the URL.

Internally, the local part of a SEF URL (the part after the domain name) is called a route. Creating and processing SEF URLs is therefore referred to as routing, and the relevant code is called a router.

Joomla Sef Urls Not Working

The procedure for enabling Search Engine Friendly URLs differs depending on the web server you are using. If you are using shared hosting, it is probably Apache. Ask your hosting provider for more information if you are uncertain.

Only the most popular web servers have been included on this page. Visit Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on IIS and Category:Search Engine Friendly URLs for more articles.

5IIS 7

Apache

Verify .htaccess is Enabled

Check that your Apache config file allows .htaccess overrides. You must make sure overrides are enabled or the .htaccess file in your Joomla! root directory will be ignored or cause an error. In the <Directory> section of your virtual host configuration file or in the main (httpd.conf) configuration file you must have something similar to the example below enabling overrides:

There are other ways to test if .htaccess is enabled if you do not have access to your site's configuration files. Please refer to the .htaccess tutorial found on The Apache Software Foundation website for additional information.

Step by Step

These are step-by-step instructions. Please follow them in the order they are presented here. If a step fails, do not continue until you have solved the problem.

Rename the file 'htaccess.txt' in your Joomla!'s base folder to '.htaccess'.
This step may not be necessary. Open .htaccess in a text editor. Uncomment RewriteBase / (remove the first character, #). If Joomla is installed in its own folder, the enter the Joomla folder name after the forward slash. e.g. RewriteBase /yourjoomlafolder.
Log on to your Back-end and open the Global Configuration.
Enable the Use Apache mod_rewrite/URL rewriting option and Save. This option uses the Apache mod_rewrite function to eliminate the 'index.php' portion of the URL.
Check if your site works correctly. Your URLs should now look like:If this option causes errors, please see How to check if mod rewrite is enabled on your server.
- If it is not enabled and you have access to the file apache/conf/httpd.conf, open that file and check if the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so is uncommented. If necessary, uncomment the line and restart the Apache web server.
- If mod_rewrite cannot be enabled, leave this option off. It does not matter if you leave the .htaccess file renamed.
If you think this necessary, enable Add suffix to URLs and Save. This option adds .html to the end of URLs. There are different opinions on whether this is necessary or even useful. Search engines do not seem to care if your URLs end in .html or not.
Open the Plugin Manager and enable the System - SEF plugin. This plugin adds SEF support to links in your