Exercises
It’s time to apply the knowledge acquired in this chapter.
Exercise 1 – Friendly URLs
Access your web space via FTP, navigate to the root folder of your website (generally public_html
or www
), and rename the htaccess.txt
file to .htaccess
.
Now, access your website’s backend and navigate to Global Configuration and look for the SEO group of options in the Site tab. Enable the following options: Search Engine Friendly URLs and Use URL Rewriting. Now navigate to your website’s frontend and check the URLs of the pages.
Exercise 2 – Article SEO
In your Joomla backend, open the article titled MyArticle
and navigate to the SEO options. Type a Meta Description in the related field and specify a Page Browser Title in the appropriate field in Options.