Got search engine friendly URLs to work now.
I had to do the following things to get it working:
- Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess in my mambo installation
- Add ‘Options FollowSymLinks’ to that file, otherwise Apache 2 does not accept URL rewriting
- allowing of .htaccess files for the mambo directory by specifying ‘AllowOverride All’ in my default-server.conf (/etc/apache2)
- loading of the URL rewriting module in Apache by adding the rewrite module to the list of modules in /etc/sysconfig/apache2
Also submitted the link to this site to google to see if it will work now.