Rewriting URLs in Joomla! 1.0.13 Stable?

I would l开发者_StackOverflow社区ike to rewrite the url's for a site based on Joomla! 1.0.13 Stable, I've never worked with joomla so I don't know much about it, how is it done? (The server is running, PHP Version 4.3.10) and I have renamed the htaccess.txt file .htaccess (although nothing has happend) and I can't find the Global Configuration link in my admin menu.

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Try adding this to your url :

administrator/index.php?option=com_config

usually it's under site -> global configuration