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PrestaShop version 1.3 UserGuide – OCTOBER 2010
• If the .Htaccess file is not created on your server, a message will alert you that the file does not
exist. As a result you can not give it content nor generate friendly URLS. To create a. Htaccess, open
your Windows notepad, save a blank file as “.Htaccess,” then insert this file in the root of your
store. Then click "Generate. Htaccess file."
Once activated, the URL of your pages will change from a structure like this:
http://www.maboutique.com/product.php?id_product=2
to this:
http://www.maboutique.com/musique-ipods/2-ipod-shuffle.html
Remember that the .Htaccess file contains rules for rewriting simplified URLs. This is a text file named
.Htaccess. If this file does not exist before starting the .Htaccess file generation, processing will not
take place. Processing .Htaccess file generation consists only of adding content to an .htaccess file
that already exists.