For those of you who didn’t know, is an open-source and powerful social networking engine used to create your own social networking web site. It is a PHP-based application and can easily be installed on a Linux VPS. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple.
I will show you through the step by step installation Elgg (Social Networking Platform) on Ubuntu 14.04. First of all make sure that all packages are up to date. ### nano settings.php /. The database username. @global string $CONFIG-dbuser. @name $CONFIG-dbuser./ $CONFIG-dbuser = 'elgguser'; /.
Don't forget to uncheck where it ask you to install services on insallation wizard. And then I started mysql service which was installed already. And edit config.inc.php as below. How to Install XAMPP on Windows 7 or 10? XAMPP is an Apache server distribution which has MySQL, PHP, PERL, and some other softwares like phpMyAdmin. It's an extremely useful software which can be used to test a website locally on a personal computer.
The database password. @global string $CONFIG-dbpass./ $CONFIG-dbpass = 'elgg@123'; /. The database name. @global string $CONFIG-dbname./ $CONFIG-dbname = 'elggdb'; /. The database host. For most installations, this is 'localhost'.
@global string $CONFIG-dbhost./ $CONFIG-dbhost = 'localhost'; /. /.
The database username. @global string $CONFIG-dbuser. @name $CONFIG-dbuser./ $CONFIG-dbuser = 'elgguser'; /. The database password. @global string $CONFIG-dbpass./ $CONFIG-dbpass = 'elgg@123'; /. The database name. @global string $CONFIG-dbname./ $CONFIG-dbname = 'elggdb'; /.
The database prefix. This prefix will be appended to all Elgg tables. If you're sharing. a database with other applications, use a database prefix to namespace tables. in order to avoid table name collisions. @global string $CONFIG-dbprefix./ $CONFIG-dbprefix = 'elgg'.
Chmod 777 / upload Step 6. Accessing Elgg. Elgg will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to or and complete the required the steps to finish the installation.
Make sure the web server has permission to write to and create directories in /var/www/html/elgg/. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel. You have successfully. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Elgg social networking engine on Ubuntu 14.04 system.