How to change URL as SEO friendly?

Question

menus of main store's urls are as follow.

http://mainstore.magento6.com/index.php/electronics.html

But menus of the child stores' urls are as follow.

http://store2.magento6.com/catalog/category/view/s/electronics/id/20/

I want to change the url of main store to

http://mainstore.magento6.com/electronics

I want to change the url of child stores to

http://store2.magento6.com/electronics

How can I do it?

Answer 1

Firstly to remove the index.php from your shop's urls can be done by updating the system config found in the admin site under:

System->Configuration->Web->Search Engines Optimization

Here if you set the option Use Web Server Rewrites to yes

Note: you may need to update the value of RewriteBase in your htaccess file to make this work

The option to remove the .html suffex on product and category pages can also be set under the admin config.

System->Configuration->Catalog->Search Engines Optimization

Here you will find the fields Product and Category URL Suffix. If you empty these two fields, save the config and then refresh the Catalog URL Rewrites index then you should have category and product urls without the index.php and without the .html

Answer 2

First of all you have to remove index.php from the URL and to do this follow following steps:

1. First of all, apache module ‘mod_rewrite‘ should be enabled. Check apache’s httpd.conf file this.
2. Then login to Magento admin panel and go to System -> Configuration -> Web -> Search Engines Optimization -> Use Web Server Rewrites and select ‘Yes’ from the selection list and save.

If your store is setup on sub-directory (example: http://example.com/store) then you have to edit htaccess file. In this file you have to remove # from #RewriteBase / and replace it with RewriteBase /store/ (store is sub-directory name).

If you want to remove .html from product and category urls then you have to follow following steps:

1. Go to System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Search Engines Optimization
2. Empty product and category url suffix and save the configuration.
3. Go to System -> Index Management and reindex data.