How to remove catid and itemid from an url in joomla?

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I have link like this

index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1885&catid=113&Itemid=435

how to remove the catid and itemid. these links are retrieving from google search results. So if i remove the catid and itemid and redirect to the link index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1885

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The best place to look for this kind of help is Always in the manual – RiggsFolly
Enable SEF (search engine friendly URL) in the configuration – jonasfh

3 Answers

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enable joomla sef url to remove ids

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You can use .htaccess to strip the parameters. Something like this might work:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)&catid=[0-9a-z]+&(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) $1?%1&%2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)&Itemid=[0-9a-z]+$|^Itemid=[0-9a-z]+&?(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) $1?%1 [R=301,L]

Source: http://forums.westhost.com/showthread.php?t=8010&p=26446&viewfull=1#post26446

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on the backend of your jooomla installation you can choose 'System'->'global configuration' in order to open the configuration page. On that page you enable the 'search engine friendly URLs, like so:

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