Search Engine Friendly URLs in Joomla Subfolder

The URLs you see on this site are an example of Joomla SEF (or Search Engine Friendly) URLs.  Since this Joomla site is in a subfolder, I thought perhaps my hosting didn't support this until I looked around in the .htaccess file some more.  Here's what I did to get it working.

The best reference I have found on this topic is here.

I followed those steps to a tee, especially the part about $live_site since this Joomla instance is in a subfolder on my main site (/awdj).

I got immetiate errors after renaming the .htaccess file.  Inside that file (formerly htaccess.txt) I found:

##  Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
#Options +FollowSymLinks

As you can see I did have to comment it out.  Then, I was still getting 404 errors for anything but the home (front) page.

I looked in the .htaccess file and found this:

#  Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
#  is not directly related to physical file paths.
#  Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)

RewriteBase /

I changed that last line to indicate my subfolder:

RewriteBase /awdj

And then Joomla SEF URLs started working fine.