Time for action – how to get search-friendly URLs

So there are big benefits for completing this Time for action. We need to make a minor modification to the files on our website and then tell PrestaShop to enable friendly URLs. Here goes:

1. Hover over the Preferences tab then click on SEO & URLs.

2. Scroll down, select Yes on Friendly URL, and click on Save.

   

3. On the dashboard, you can check whether everything went smoothly.

   

4. Now, it is possible that this didn't work! It is even possible that you get an error whenever you try to view your store. Don't panic. This means that your web host does not support URL rewriting. Simply go back to Step 2 and disable friendly URLs, and all will be well. A web host not supporting URL rewriting seems to be a fairly rare event these days, so it is very unlikely that this will be a problem.

What just happened?

First of all, when you click on the Save button, PrestaShop creates a file on your website that gives instructions to the Apache web server to dig deeper...