Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on Hiawatha
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Use the following UrlToolkit rule to enable clean URLs on the Hiawatha webserver:
UrlToolkit {
ToolkitID = joomla
Match base64_encode.*\(.*\) DenyAccess
Match (<|%3C).*script.*(>|%3E) DenyAccess
Match GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) DenyAccess
Match _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) DenyAccess
RequestURI exists Return
Match /index.php Return
Match ^/component/ Skip 2
Match ^(/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ Skip 1
Skip 1
Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}
Enable an UrlToolkit rule for a virtual host via the UseToolkit setting:
VirtualHost {
...
UseToolkit = joomla
}