Adding SEO Friendly URL’s to OpenCart

First off, I must give credit where it is due. I got most of my information on OpenCart Clean URL’s from PHP Genious. In this post I will explain how friendly or clean URL’s work in OpenCart.

Clean URL’s are built into OpenCart 1.5. To use SEO URL’s you need to enable them under your stores server settings, rename the .htaccess.txt file and add your SEO keyword for each product and category you create. The keywords will not be created for you. You must also have Apache mod_rewrite turned on. Most web hosts will have this on by default.

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