I'm getting 404 errors on all links exept the homepage for my migrated Joomla 2.5 website.

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Angello
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Hi, i just got this hosting and wanted to migrate my website from the other hosting company to this one, but i´m having a lot of trouble, somebody helped me and it looked Ok on the homepage, but if you click an ANY link except for the Facebook and Twitter links, you get a 404 error, i really don´t have an idea of what might been causing this error, any help on this will be very appreciated.
Thank you.
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This is a Joomla 25 site
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Arn
Hello Angello, Sorry to hear that you're getting 404 errors. If you are getting 404 errors and you know that all of your files are on the server, then the problem is most likely an issue with the path that is being used to access the files that make up the pages of your Joomla 2.5 website. The first thing you need to do is disable/remove the option to use Search Engine Friendly links. These links will often be referenced in the database and will usually store the OLD paths to your website. You will need to disable or remove them, save them (as being disabled), then re-enable them so that Joomla re-builds the links based on its new location. We do not have an article for SEF links in Joomla 2.5, but you may want to review the 3.0 version here, or, you can also reference this article on enabling SEF URLs through Joomla's documentation. If you are still having problem with the paths, please review the migration steps for for moving a Joomla installation to another server in order to verify that all of your site files migrated to the new hosting location successfully. If you're still having problems and you need further assistance, please let us know. Regards, Arnel C.