Enable SEO URL in Opencart

1.To use URL Alias you need to be running apache with mod_rewrite enabled.

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo service apache2 restart

2. In your opencart directory rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess.

contain of .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymlinks

# Prevent Directoy listing

Options -Indexes

# Prevent Direct Access to files

Require all denied

</FilesMatch>

# SEO URL Settings

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /shop/

RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=extension/feed/google_sitemap [L]

RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=extension/feed/google_base [L]

RewriteRule ^system/download/(.*) index.php?route=error/not_found [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)

RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]

Note :- In your .htaccess file, change subdirectory name. e.g. RewriteBase /shop/

If you are running opencart on localhost then url would be http://localhost/projectname. In this case RewriteBase /projectname/

Change RewriteBase according as per your project.

3. Now go to opencart admin settings page

System > settings > edit your store > under server tab enable SEO Url option

Then try to run in the browser. If there is 404 exist then follow the below step

-> Open terminal

-> Type sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

-> Place these lines

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride All

Require all granted

</Directory>

Now check in the browser.

Its working...!!!

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