How to enable SEF (Search Engine Friendly) URLs?
You can enable the Search Engine Friendly URLs from the Joomla administrator's panel. Go to Site -> Global Configuration -> SEO. Once you enable this option, you have to rename the htaccess.txt file in your Joomla directory to .htaccess.
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