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I want my link to become a permalink. I have renamed the .htaccess,txt into .htaccess and set enabled for SEO url in the setting but the link still hasn't changed.

Are there something missing?

Have you entered your keywords in your products, etc.?

Link for what?

labeshops wrote:Link for what?

I want that the link in the url isn't formatted like this : http://mysite.com/index.php?route=produ ... duct_id=20 but more like : http://mysite.com/product-name

Cue4cheap wrote:Have you entered your keywords in your products, etc.?

do you mean meta keywords?

1
rename your .htaccess.txt to .htaccess
# If your opencart installation does not run on the main web folder make sure you folder it does run in ie. / becomes /shop/
RewriteBase /

2
Login as admin->system-> setting->your store->edit->server-> use SEO url: Yes-> Save

3
Login as admin->catalog-> catagories / products-> your product-> edit-> data-> SEO Keyword: XXXx-> Save
(Do not use spaces instead replace spaces with - and make sure the keyword is globally unique.)

yuno wrote:1
rename your .htaccess.txt to .htaccess
# If your opencart installation does not run on the main web folder make sure you folder it does run in ie. / becomes /shop/
RewriteBase /

2
Login as admin->system-> setting->your store->edit->server-> use SEO url: Yes-> Save

3
Login as admin->catalog-> catagories / products-> your product-> edit-> data-> SEO Keyword: XXXx-> Save
(Do not use spaces instead replace spaces with - and make sure the keyword is globally unique.)

I'm still getting 500 Internal Server Error.
I also don't quite understand what step no.1 means. My site is not inside public_html folder but in the same root with it. What should I change?