A specific guide detailing how to enable search engine friendly URL’s in Magento, and how to troubleshoot problems that may arise when enabling this feature.
I often get asked questions related to errors when trying to enable Magento’s search engine friendly URL’s. This will teach you how to both enable the feature in Magento and troubleshoot the most common error that occurs in Magento installs.
Login to your Magento administrator back-end
Navigate to System->Configuration->Web->Search Engine Optimization
Switch to Yes and save.
Goto System->Cache Management
Refresh the catalog rewrites
Goto All Cache and change drop down to Refresh.
Click save
On most server, this should take out the index.php in your URL’s.
If you are getting a 404 error, continue reading.
The most common cause for this is that you have an incorrect .htaccess file in your ftp.
Goto the magentocommerce.com site and download the magento files again.
Extract the files, and ONLY upload the .htaccess file to your Magento root directory.
This should fix any problems related to enabling the use of web server rewrites in Magento.
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