This isn’t even Magento 101, it’s Magento Middle School, but it accounts for 25% of the questions people email me about Magento.
If you want to avoid URLs in the form of
http://magento.example.com/index.php/foo/baz/bar
and instead have
http://magento.example.com/foo/baz/bar
Make sure your webserver is setup toead .htaccess
files, and that the following Magento configuration field is set to Yes
Web -> Search Engine Optimization -> Use Web Server Rewrites