little help needed

[wslounge.com]

hopefully everyone is having a great veterans day weekend
i have been working on my site and it's almost done but I need a couple more things to complete. One is getting my url's to be search engine friendly for Joomla but i think it has something to do with changing some settings on the host. I have found the following instructions but dont know how to do it any help will be appreciated ...thanks in advance

SEF is for Apache only. It is using mod_rewrite for pointing server to the right file whilst all logic is in PHP. There are only 3 lines in .htaccess for mod_rewrite directions.

To turn SEF support ON:
1) You must run Apache
2) You must have mod_rewrite enabled
3) Your server must allow .htaccess override
4) Set $mosConfig_sef= "1" in configuration.php
5) Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess

[Pethens]

1, 2 & 3 are taken care of by bluehost already. You should have no problems with 4 & 5.

Hope that helps

[wslounge.com]

thanks now my question is how do I change it?or where do i change it?

[Pethens]

I might be able to answer your question if you could be a little more specific about what you don't understand.

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i dont know where in bluehost to go to make the desired changes

do i go to phpMyAdmin?PostgreSQL Databases? i dont know nothing about the whole programming thing :mad:

[felgall]

Steps 4 and 5 refer to configuration.php and .htaccess so those are the two files you need to make those changes to.

[Pethens]

You just need to edit one file and rename the other using whatever technique you prefer. You don't need to worry about phpMyAdmin. Maybe you are used to doing this kind of thing with an FTP client?? If not, here's one method that will work:

1. In your control panel, click on File Manager
2. In File Manager, navigate to your public_html directory, and then to the directory where you installed Joomla.
3. Click on configuration.php. Then in the upper right, click on Edit File. Edit the file as per your instructions and save it
4. Go back to File Manager. Click on htaccess.txt. In the upper right, click on Rename File. Rename it to .htaccess. The period at the beginning of the file name is important. Save your changes.

At this point, assuming the original instructions you have were correct, you're done. Try to access Joomla with a search-engine friendly URL.

Or maybe if you have gotten this far already, you will have some other way to do it. Don't worry, it's really quite simple!

[wslounge.com]

thanks for all the help

[Pethens]

thanks for all the help

No problem. It worked for you, I hope.