Why does your site get messed up when you turn on SEF (Search Engine Friendly URLs)?

Revision as of 16:20, 8 June 2011

Usually this has something to do with your host's settings. One solution that commonly works is to enter a value for the $live_site variable in the configuration.php file found in the root directory of your Joomla site files. The value of the variable must be manually edited.

Typically, it would look like:

var $live_site = 'http://example.com';

But, if you access your Web site in a folder, it would be like this:

var $live_site = 'http://example.com/joomla';

Note: If the $live_site variable is already set correctly then try

var $live_site = '';

• See Joomla! v 1.5 SEF URLs Scribd by Benjamin Hättasch which contains step-by-step instructions for installing and trouble-shooting your SEF URLs.