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Setup Friendly URLs

http://localhost/index.php?url=pageTag to http://localhost/pageTag

Enable the mod_rewrite module

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Configure the server to recognize .htaccess files by modifying the 000-default.conf file

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Add the following code to the 000-default.conf file just before the </VirtualHost> closing tag: 
<p>
<Directory /var/www/html><br/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>
</p>

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Enable the RewriteEngine and set the RewriteRule

At a minimum add the following code to the website's .htaccess file: 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/? index.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]
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