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• In this tutorial we will enable our Mambo site to work with Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs. In order for SEF URLs to work your web server needs to be apache and you need to have mod_rewrite enabled. If you have questions about either of these, talk to your webhost.
• Navigate to Site >> Global Configuration
• Then you will need to select the SEO tab.
• Select the Yes radio box next to the Search Engine Friendly URLs descriptor.
• Mambo will alert you that you need to change the name of your file. When you initially upload Mambo, it is named htaccess.txt. For SEF to work, you will need to name it .htaccess.
• Click the OK button
• Click Save
• We have now enabled everything in Mambo. Let's go rename the htaccess.txt file and get it setup to work properly.
• Open your FTP/editor program of choice. Mine happens to be Dreamweaver. We will begin by making the necessary edits to the htaccess.txt file.
• Open the htaccess.txt file.
• Now we need to set the directory Mambo is in. For most installations this will be  simply /. If you installed Mambo in a folder of your website (www.site.com/mambo) you need to set it to be the folder name, /Mambo.
• Now we need to save the file and rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess