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Usually this has something to do with your host's settings. One solution that commonly works is to enter a value for the livesite variable in configuration.php. This must be manually entered.

Typically, it would look like this:

var $live_site = 'http://example.com';

But, if you access your Web site in a folder, it would be like this:

var $live_site = 'http://example.com/joomla';

• See Joomla! v 1.5 SEF URLs Scribd by Benjamin Hättasch which contains step-by-step instructions for installing and trouble-shooting your SEF URLs.