Apache Mod_Rewrite module is a really handy and cool feature in Apache Web Server.
With mod_rewrite, you can show a different url than the actual url. you will also help your website make it more search engine friendly by avoiding having the ? (question mark) in your urls.
for example, this topic i am writing right now here at Wallpaperama, im actually using mod_rewrite, if you look at the url in your browser, its says:
http://www.kenlapz.org/forums/how-to-test-check-if-mod-rewrite-is-enabled-t40.html
Sunday, 08 March 2009 16:38
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Having a Joomla Website with Search Engine Friendly URL is very important, especially to make your website become easier to index or dig by search engine . With using this feature at lease we will help to increase our website chance to be found by searcher over the net.
One of the famous Joomla Component for SEF is sh404SEF, why we like or use this component? it's because this component already support many other component so we don't need to do much in the configuration things. As default, sh404SEF already support for below component :