Ok, I figured out why my seo friendly urls feature in joomla wouldnt work. It’s because I installed joomla and configured offline then uploaded online.
When you do this certain settings get set and you cant rewrite url paths. So what I had to do was:
1. in the root directory of joomla rename my htaccess.txt to .htaccess
2. find the RewriteBase / and uncomment it.
3. then if you placed Joomla in a subdirectory not directly in your root you have to change that base path to /yourDirectory, in my case I changed it to:
RewriteBase /store
I then went back in and reenabled SEO friendly links, the apache mod rewrite and suffixes and it all works now. I have normal urls, shorter urls, and they display the .html extensions.
This may be helpful to you guys:
I’ll post this all on my blog too!
