How to change URL's for each page in site?

[robertellement]

I've been trying to optimize my Joomla 1.5 site for search engines and was wondering if there was any way to change the URL's of all of my pages so instead of a bunch of generated php stuff it can say like 'www.site.com/music/lessons'.

Any help would be awesome. Cheers

[RussW]

setup your menu's with aliases (should do this for you anyway) and enable the SEF option in the Global Configuration.

[robertellement]

Thanks makes sense. I've coded most of my own links in with my site. When i switch it over will i have to rewrite the url's for all my links???

[kamasajei]

mine still says "site.com/index.php/contact

How can I make it say only "site.com/contact"?

(I chose SEF in Global Config, and Put the Alias "contact" for the contact menu in Main Menu, Article Layout.)

Thanks Joomla family

[kamasajei]

setup your menu's with aliases (should do this for you anyway) and enable the SEF option in the Global Configuration.

mine still says "site.com/index.php/contact

How can I make it say only "site.com/contact"?

(I chose SEF in Global Config, and Put the Alias "contact" for the contact menu in Main Menu, Article Layout.)

Thanks Joomla family !

[JuliaLee]

I have updated the page alias but the page url did not change. How do I do this?

[pishro]

I have updated the page alias but the page url did not change. How do I do this?

please see: http://docs.joomla.org/Glossary

And:

The Alias
The first step is the generation of the so called alias. The alias is used in the URL instead of the title (the alias is the text you want to have in the URL). The alias has to be URI safe, which means accented UTF­8 characters are replaced by their ASCII­7 equivalents, white spaces by hyphens, etc.
The alias can be defined by the user, but you should ensure that the above requirements for a URL safe alias are met. A good way to do so is to use the JTable::check() method during the save process. Have a look at this example code:

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function check()
{
    jimport( 'joomla.filter.output' );
    if(empty($this->alias)) {
            $this->alias = $this->title;
    }
    $this->alias = JFilterOutput::stringURLSafe($this->alias);
 
    /* All your other checks */
    return true;
}

[JuliaLee]

Thanks, turns out the Alias can't be edited but has to be emptied first.

[JuliaLee]

the url is still not updating