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Written by Josh Lyon

Monday, 09 April 2007 04:34

I had some issues using the first set of instructions I found for setting up Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on my 1and1 account. I had renamed the htaccess.txt to .htaccess and made some small changes, but I was still having issues. The information below got me up and going.

Setting up .htaccess file
Rename the htaccess.txt file bundled with the installation to .htaccess.

You will need to make a few changes to the .htaccess file so it is configured correctly. The change descriptions are noted in bold below. Also, note that RewriteBase is relative to the URL of the site, not the absolute path. If you have Joomla! setup in the root directory, this shouldn't be an issue for you.

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

# Uncomment following line if your webserver’s URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla/MamboDirectory (just / for root)

# Uncomment this line
RewriteBase /

#comment all of the lines of the below section
########## Begin Standard SEF Section
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
##RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^(content/|component/) index.php
########## End Standard SEF Section

# Uncomment all lines
########## Begin 3rd Party or Core SEF Section
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/vietnam/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
########## End 3rd Party or Core SEF Section

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icoggert said:

	Sweet Sweet, it got me going as well. Thank you!!!
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August 10, 2007
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Brandon said:

	:] Thanks you so much. been searching everywhere to fix this.
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April 23, 2008
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Dozza said:

	Still works Thanks for this. The above still works for 1&1 in the UK in April 08. Why does it work when you uncomment the 3rd party stuff, even tho not using 3rd party? Weird
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April 29, 2008
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Alan Mokbel said:

	Still not working I've done the changes and still nothing. Are you using this with a third party plugin? like 404SEF?
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May 10, 2008
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Gregory said:

	Thank You!!! Thank you for the help.
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June 03, 2008
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Leo Woods said:

	Thanks! Brilliant help thanks a lot
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September 16, 2008 | url
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Jan said:

	GREAT!!!! You are GENIUS! Thanks a lot!
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February 21, 2009
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chetan said:

	Thanks a Bunch! Thanks a Bunch!
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February 28, 2009 | url
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JoomlaSoftware said:

	Nice Joomla Templete That is definitely true about this comments- Joomla SEO on 1and1 actually I am using Joomla for last few days and goes nicely
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July 10, 2009
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Dave said:

	hero Thanks, you're my hero. I've been trying for ages to get this working on a website im building for someone. You're now my hero!
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January 07, 2010 | url
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Styletricks said:

	Joomla developer Also when customizing htaccess file you can ad custem redirects form non www to www and backwards.
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February 12, 2010 | url
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SEO Company said:

	livefaq If the host is down when Googlebot tries to access your pages, then those pages may disappear from the index until Googlebot can crawl them again. In webmaster tools, do the pages you want indexed appear in the crawl errors section? If so, then Googlebot was unable to access them.
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July 02, 2010
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Hitendra bari said:

	SEO friendly Links still i m having problem on one of my site on joomla to ocnvert the links to SEO friendly i tried a lot but everytime it shows error . Can u give more info on it in simple way.Please! THANKS
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