How to define URL of Joomla sub-menus? [migrated]

How/where is the URL of a Joomla article (used as submenu item) defined when using URL-shortening?

What I want to achieve is to have the article URLs to represent a submenu logic.

For example, the URL of the article "TiQuant" of the main menu item "Software" should be show as:

https://www.hoehme.com/software/tiquant (this URL is not working)

and not at as it is currently:

https://www.hoehme.com/software?view=article&id=8:tiquant&catid=9:software

I am using "Modern" URL routing and I have enabled the removal of IDs (both for articles). The alias of the article is "tiquant". For the main menu items, URL shortening works perfectly as intended. The Joomla version is 3.10.xx (most recent).

Thank you very much for your help!

Solution 1:

I think you should enable Search Engine Friendly URLs in Joomla first. Go to System > Global Configuration. In the SEO Settings, enable the option Use URL Rewriting

AND:

Dont forget Rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess in root folder