Joomla 3 - Generate URL based on article alias without creating menu item

Question

Description: I have almost 4,000 articles and now i want the SEF URLs for them all based on alias of each article is it possible if i can achieve this without creating menu items? ie (www.websitename.com/article-alis)

Problem: I know i can achieve this if i create menu items for them all but i don't want to create 4,000 menu items and want some quick and easy way but based on article alias so i can change it whenever i want.

Thanks, Aamir

Answer 1

UPDATE

If you want make that, you must do rename htaccess.txt (for activate SEO Control) and modify your .htaccess (on main folder site) and peraps create your propers rules.

First : Have you renmae the htaccess.txt file (on main folder site) to .htaccess ?

is here where contain all rules for rewriting!

Example: RewriteRule ^folder1.*$ http://example.com/folder2/ [R=301,L]

On this example, all article start on folder name folde1 is rewrite by folder2

You can see more : https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204643270/using-htaccess-rewrite-rules

or for Joomla 3 rewriting : https://docs.joomla.org/Enabling_Search_Engine_Friendly_%28SEF%29_URLs