Clean Joomla Url - Settings 

Before following the steps take a backup

1. Log into your Joomla dashboard;
2. Click on the Global Configuration link under the SYSTEM tab;
3. Find the SEO Settings;
4. Set Use URL rewriting option to Yes
5. For Apache server make sure mod_rewrite is installed and enabled,  rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess in the root directory, activate from the dashboard
6. For the IIS 7 server make sure the IIS URL Rewrite Module is enabled for your hosting account. Rename web.config.txt file to web.config before activating Use URL rewriting option.

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