This community has been set up for those of you running an Elgg install. Here we can discuss install issues, installing plugins, configuration settings and so on.

I've been waiting patiently for this - I'm about to dive into setting up a social network for a secondary school in Suffolk, UK and am hoping this will be the place for me to get any support I might need.

A couple of questions, I'll post each as a separate entry.

What are the differences I'll experience between using Elgg and People Aggregator?

- we will host our own network, would like to use shared authentication (possibly with Moodle, OpenID or using Shibboleth), would like to be able to monitor and control some privacy settings centrally to protect students, allow students to build a personal collection of resources...

Why did you all choose Elgg?

I'm finding it a lot easier to find things on the new Elgg.org site, great redesign well done.

I'm about to install Elgg on a shared server, in a subdirectory. I remember reading that this has sometimes been problematic.

Will Elgg run happily from a subdirectory?

What do people call the subdomains they use for Elgg networks? I'm considering:

people.ourschool.net
social.ourschool.net
networks.ourschool.net
elgg.ourschool.net 

Any better suggestions? (our Moodle is at learn.ourschool.net) 

We have a large, lively Moodle installation with 1300+ users. We are considering integrating Elgg. I've found lots of assistance at the Moodle forums but wondered if there are any gotchas or possible difficulties from an Elgg point of view that I should be aware of?

Has anyone prepared any resources for introducing Elgg to existing Moodle users that I could view?

Are there any problems people have encountered integrating Elgg & Moodle? (Strange, I know, to ask for problems instead of solutions!)

I am willing to participate in your project.

I'd like to do Polish translation for elgg

I ask for directions.

Regards,

Greg 

Hello - I tried installing, uploading the software several time, but get mySQL errors for all but four create tables.  Almost all seem to be the same as shown below where COMMENT is used. Any help apprecicated.

 (mysql): CREATE TABLE `ms_file_folders` ( `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `owner` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT '-> users.ident, folder creator', `files_owner` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT '-> users.ident, folder owner (community)', `parent` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT '-> file_folders.ident, parent folder', `name` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '', `access` varchar(20) NOT NULL default 'PUBLIC', `handler` varchar(32) NOT NULL default 'elgg', PRIMARY KEY (`ident`), KEY `files_owner` (`files_owner`), KEY `owner` (`owner`), KEY `access` (`access`), KEY `name` (`name`)) TYPE=MyISAM  

---

1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'COMMENT '-> users.ident, folder creator', `files_owner` int(11) NOT NULL defaul' at line 1

            adodb_mysql._execute(CREATE TABLE `ms_file_folders` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `owner` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT '-> use..., false) % line  889, file: adodb.inc.php
         adodb_mysql.execute(CREATE TABLE `ms_file_folders` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `owner` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT '-> use...) % line   38, file: datalib.php
      execute_sql(CREATE TABLE `ms_file_folders` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `owner` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT '-> use...) % line  188, file: datalib.php
   modify_database(/home/httpd/vhosts/fightms.org/httpdocs/lib/db/mysql.sql) % line   27, file: dbsetup.php
require_once(/home/httpd/vhosts/fightms.org/httpdocs/lib/dbsetup.php) % line   50, file: includes.php 

Error

I am happy to report that I have very few problems with my .70RC1 install.  One issue, very minor, is that the Friendly URL feature doesn't work.  not sure if it's an .htaccess issue or something else, but when a user changes their Friendly URL it is not accessible at:

http://elggsite.com/home/friendlyurlname/

This page results in a 404. Any thoughts?

I noticed here that the default access restriction setting is "public" rather than "logged in users." 

How does one change this globally for an elgg installation?  This would make more sense for my site. 

I would like to be able to set default "community" memberships for all newly registered users, as is the case here for the support communities.  Essentially, I would like to include 3 different support communities as default memberships to all newly registered users. 

How would one accomplish this?  Obviously, this would be a nice feature for future revs. 

Not sure if this is the right place for plugin support, as the plugin section looked more for announcements and concepting. .

I am running the friendicon plugin and it works well except that it shows the wrong user icons.  There seems to be a pattern to the madness, like it's one off in either direction.  Icons show up normally everywhere else on the site.  This happened to me on .673 and also after I upgraded to 0.70RC1, so I don't think it is an elgg version issue.

Anyone have a clue?  Thanks! 

Getting sick of all my posts, eh?  Sorry for so many but a new elgger here and it's always better to keep threads limited to one specific topic rather than dumping lots of different questions in one thread, right?

I can't be the only one who has noticed that on my site, this site, and elgg.net, and every other elgg site, that the tag cloud display runs over itself in IE but not Firefox.  Yes, IE sucks, but there has to be a relatively easy CSS solution to make IE respect the font sizes in the tag cloud.  No?

It wouldn't be so bad if the issue didn't make it very difficult to click on a smaller tag that resides directly above a big tag that runs over it.  You basically get the big tag selected unless you are very careful, and sometimes the smaller tag cannot be selected.

This could be my 1920 screen resolution, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  IE does still have roughly 85% market share with end-users.

Did I mention that I love elgg?  Thanks! 

What is the defaul admin user id and password. I recently installed the app but I'm unable to log in as the admin. I tried News and then Password but still that did not work.

Also is there a way for me to reset or "hack" a way around in case i forget my password? 

We've installed Elgg on our server but we cannot get the profile icons/photos to load. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Have others had trouble with this?

Hi all

 Thanks for this great script..but I wonder it will work under PHP safe mod effect?

Thanks

 Happy valentine's day

A user of my site pointed out that there is an error when trying to embed a file to a blog post in IE 7.05x.  I've replicated the error on my site, on elgg.net and here on this post at elgg.org.  Firefox works fine. 

Essentially, when you select the file to upload and click the "add" button, the code {{fileX}} does not appear in the post body text box in IE (but does in Firefox) and the infamous "error on page" text shows up at the bottom left of the IE browser - unspecified in line 910, _weblog/edit.php. 

I have turned on debug 2047 and while I have a lot of notices and warnings, they do not appear related.

Notice: Undefined variable: forum_flag in /home/doggyblo/public_html/mod/forum/lib.php on line 42

Notice: Undefined variable: default in /home/doggyblo/public_html/mod/posticon/function_icon_select.php on line 66

Notice: Undefined variable: default in /home/doggyblo/public_html/mod/posticon/function_icon_select.php on line 66

That said, you can make the code show up in IE by repeating the process of adding the file but making sure that you do not select a different image or reselect the previous image in the drop down. 

In other words, it won't work the first time, but after it fails, you put the cursor back in the text box and just click "add," and it will place the previously selected image code in the text box.  You cannot select a different file or even re-select the same file and then click add, as it starts the bug loop over again.  Apparently, each time you select a file, it must fail the first attempt.  Then you place the cursor again and just click "add" at which point it works. 

If you try to add several files, it may or may not work, depending on the sequence of placing the cursor in the text box, selecting the file, clicking add and then replacing the cursor in the text box. 

Play around with it and you'll see what I'm talking about.

After i changed my News admin password, i keep getting the error "500 Internal Server Error"  when i try to log in again. Is there a way for me to re-reset it so I can log back in, or a way to set another account as the admin since this one is giving me so much trouble?

Can someone tell me how can i get teh site members box? I'm able to get it only on text mode. I want to be able to get it with the user's pics.     

Just noticed that my archive is listing February posts as January?  How can this be?  I've seen it on another site also.  Click on the "January 2007" link and then notice that up top it says January, but the entries are clearly labeled February:

http://doggybloggy.com/blogdog/weblog/archive/

Same is true on Tom's new site:

http://www.bhrnetwork.com/toddherrold/weblog/archive/

 

Hi.

First i wanted to say that this script is amazing - simple and very effective + highly design customizable (I'll get back with some designs later.

What i wanted to ask is for what is that Dashboard ? I mean i can add widgets to it but other users can't see it as there is no link to it.

It would be superb if instead of default profile info there would be the dashboard that "compiles" info from users news feeds, profile and blog.

Well, how do i do that? :) i mean to put the dashboard of an user instead of their defailt profiles?

Thanks.

I was trying to install Elgg on a Siteground shared server - usually I find their service excellent, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.

They run PHP as a CGI, instead of a module, and as I've discovered this presents problems when running Elgg.

1) Is there anyway to run Elgg on a server where PHP is a CGI? 

2) Can anyone recommend an affordable host where we could host Elgg, and a large Moodle installation? (We currently pay US$60 a year for a shared server, but would find it difficult to afford the US$1000 we'd need for a VPS)

3) We are hoping to integrate Moodle & Elgg, is this possible with installations on separate servers? 

Sorry to fill a thread with 3 separate questions.

(Have got Elgg up and running on a different server, provided by Clook, and am enjoying playing!)

Hi! 

I have followed the installation instruction and the installation went OK. The only problem is this error:

Message 1: "ERROR: You need to create the directory (...)/data/ with web server write access.

Message 2: "Your current dataroot directory, (...)/data/ is not writable by the webserver!"

I have changed access rights but the message remains the same. This prevents me from logging.

Note: I am using MAMP 1.4.1 on Mac OS X.

Regards,

Xavier

UPDATE : According to Nathan's advise (see comments), I have used file-system path instead of http one and it went OK. Thank you very much. For all, I think that this is a best practice or a guideline to be added to config.php file on line 92 ( $CFG->dataroot = ... ).

Regards.

I cannot log in with the News admin account. I event cleared up the entire old installation including the tables. And I still keep getting the message "Internal Server Error", with no details of the problem.  Is there any way to have another account as the admin account.

Upgrading tp mySQL 4.1 solved the DB problem. Now I have a problem running the site. Users can register and received the email notifications, but they cannot log on. It does not give any error. The News &  Password did not work and this is set in the config.php

I tried to log on as admin, at /_elggadmin/ and the page display said I needed to add the adminuser and adminpassword to the config.php. I added it (admin and 1150kep1) to the main config.php and could log on as admin, but could not save any changes to the configuration. Still cannot log in as a member or user.

I'm not sure what is wrong. Any help appreciated. site is at: www.fightms.org

I noticed on Google that none of my elgg pages have proper descriptions, so that prompted me to look at the code a bit.  When viewing source, there are no metatags or meta description on any of my elgg pages, which seems unusual. 

I see a call to "metatags" in the pageshell, but nothing shows up on the html output.   I see also that there are no meta tags or description here on this forum either.  Obviously, this is important for search engine optimization (SEO). 

Is it broken or does it simply not exist (yet)?

Hello All,

 How can I force an update of static content?  For example I have edited my Terms of Use by editing the file content/mainindex/content_main_terms.php ; however, even after restarting Apache, the old terms still shows up.  How can I force the new terms to show up?

 

Thanks,

-J 

how do i send private message to other users?

Using Elgg 0.7 RC1 and when I click on browse - not all of the users are showing either logged in or not. Is this a bug or am i missing something?

Hi,

I changed my language config settingto de  (German) but the emails to new users are still send out in English. 

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers,

Snik 

 

 

 

A while back there was somediscussion as to deleting of users.

It was targetted for 0.7 but has not yet appeared. Has there been any further development on this?

The INSTALL document says,

"You must have the GD library installed."

 What/where is this?

I'm a newbie trying to install this on a generic LAMP machine. I get 500 Internal Server Errors.

How do I change the logged out page to show our logo? I have modified the /Default_Template loggedin and loggedout for the text of the body, but I would like our logo on the main page logged out. version 672, fedor core6, mysql, php and apache2

TIA,

Eric 

When I go to http://mysite/_elggadmin and enter all the details required, I then click save. Next thing is just a blank page. This is the only page that seems to load. When I try to go to my homepage or any other page I get Error .htaccess is missing. When in actual fact .htaccess is there, so I dont know what the problem might be. any help will be appreciated.

Hello,

I have just installed elgg on linux FC5 running apache2, mysql 5.0.22 and php 5.1.6.

The installation went fine with _elggadmin config, and all DB tables seem to be installed properly; but when attempting to log in as news user for the first time, I just get a blank page with no error message at all.

The log in page for users is displayed properly to it doesn't seem to be a gd or template loading problem.

Any idea about this issue? Do you need additional config info?

Thanks

After installation, i tried to access index.php page, and got database error. My settings are win xp pro, apache 2.2, php 5, mysql 5.  I believe that i got mod_rewrite right. Do I need to do something on database first? Like create an elgg database? How should it be done? 

 

1046: No database selected

            ADOConnection._Execute(CREATE TABLE `elggcontent_flags` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `url` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',  PRIMARY K..., false) % line  889, file: adodb.inc.php
         ADOConnection.Execute(CREATE TABLE `elggcontent_flags` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `url` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',  PRIMARY K...) % line   40, file: datalib.php
      execute_sql(CREATE TABLE `elggcontent_flags` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `url` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',  PRIMARY K...) % line  190, file: datalib.php
   modify_database(/web/elgg/lib/db/mysql.sql) % line   29, file: dbsetup.php
require_once(C:\web\elgg\lib\dbsetup.php) % line   63, file: includes.php 

Error

Hi,
It seems that I've got an issue with my elgg installations.
I've tried with everal releases but all of them have the same behaviour.
All seems to work except the short 'portlet' on right of the screen that will normally give information about the user your looking at (or You) with a photo and THE link to be able to add this user as a new friend.
In fact I don't see this portlet ???
I'm using PHP4.3.10 with the GD library.
Does anyone have already got this issue ???

To see this issue in action, you can try :
http://gears-community.eife-l.org/mvancoillie/ (old release)
or
http://community.eife-l.org/mvancoillie (last 0.7rc2 release).

Thanks for your help.
Marc

I'm getting a 500 Internal Server Error on installation, and I can't seem to get past it.

If I rename config.php to something else, I get:

> Elgg configuration error: config.php is missing. Please see INSTALL file.

Likewise, if I rename .htaccess, I get:

> Elgg configuration error: .htaccess is missing. Please see INSTALL file.

Otherwise, 500 Internal Server Error.

What's a good approach to tracking down the cause? 

I noticed that, out of the box, lib/db/mysql.sql uses 'prefix_' for all its tables.

However, config.php has $CFG->prefix = 'elgg';

If I change mysql.sql's 'prefix_' (via search-and-replace in an editor) to 'elgg_', do I need $CFG->prefix to be 'elgg_', or should it remain 'elgg'? (That is, should the underscore be in $CFG->prefix?)

Normally I'd consider "whichever works" as a reasonable answer, but I haven't gotten it working at all and don't know how this contributes to my problems.

Thanks in advance.

Can anyone tell me how to change the icon sizes throughout the site?  I would like to enlarge the user profile icon in the sidebar and also change the max size of images in the blog before a thumbnail gets generated.  My few users are complaining about the fact that if an image is above a certain size, then it gets thumbnailed.  I would like to increase this size to 550 width but I can't figure it out.  I've made some changes in various places in the code but nothing takes effect. 

Thanks in advance.

Feature request:  There should be one place either in config.php or in admin area that allows admin to specify thumbnailing, icon and image sizes.

I've looked in the Installation guide but I can find no mention of the recommended way of updating elgg from 0.65 to 0.7. I understand that the themes are totally different so they would need to be removed. Are there any special instructions for upgrdaing or can I just slap the new code over the top of the exisiting code?

Cheers

MP 

This is not explicitly in the install documentation and perhaps it should be.

Like many Open Sauce projects, elgg uses so-called rewrite rules to create a URL that will end up extracting the information from the database to generate and display the required page on the fly. This relies on three components:

1. The Apache server has to have a module called mod-rewrite installed (common)
2. There needs to be a file called .htaccess in the root of executing code. Thismay need configuring.
3. Apache needs to be told to execute the .htaccess by means of a directive in it's configuration file. This is the bit that is commonly forgotten about when installing and will lead to the 404 file not found errors. Here's how to add or check the directive.
   1. Find the apache configuration file:
      $ locate httpd.conf
      $ cd absolute path to httpd.conf
   2. Now edit to add the following:
      $sudo vi httpd.conf
      < Directory "/absolute path to your elgg .htaccess file">
      AllowOverride All
      </Directory>
   3. Restart Apache:
      $ apachectl restart

This is mainly for those who have their own servers....

Hope it helps someone.

MarkPea 

I really like the tag cloud - its a great idea and easy way to find common topics.

Where does it draw its tag from - personal blogs? community forum or other?

I have a lot of tags in it but the last ones that I have put in have not updated in personal blog or community.

Does some kind of cron job need to run? I am running a php accelerator as it is on a shared moodle box.

Dear all,

I am trying to publish a podcast channel in both subscribable and web-based form. That is, I want visitors to be able to play audio files from the file storage web page and to subscribe via the RSS feed. Naturally, web page visitors should see the Flash player.

From what I can tell, the Flash player only appears when you post an audio file into a blog entry. The blog RSS feed is not readable by podcatchers. The file storage feed works great in iTunes, but it doesn't display the Flash audio player.

Is there a way to do this that I am just missing? Any chance of getting the small Flash audio player button for the file storage area?

Thanks.

Richard

I get errors from the admin panel that:

The administration panel can't write to the theme. You will need to edit your theme files directly or specify that mod/template/templates/Default_Template/ is world-writable.
Could not backup pageshell.
Could not backup css.

and

The administration panel can't write to the front page template. You will need to edit your front page files directly or specify that mod/template/templates/Default_Template/ is world-writable.

However, I have checked several times that this directory and all files in it are, in fact, world readable. I did chmod -R 777 mod/template/templates/Default_Template/ ls -l mod/template/templates/Default_Template/ shows that all files are -rwxrwxrwx Nevertheless, the administration panel continues to give these errors.

Hi all,

I'm a bit of a noob at all this open source bolgging.

I've installed the elgg package on my server and chmod 777'd all the relavent files.  I can get to the login page (http://www.phildourado.com/elgg/) but when I try to log in it takes me to a page that doesn't exist. (http://www.phildourado.com/login/index.php)

I'm assuming it should take me to http://www.phildourado.com/elgg/login/index.php and not the above.  Any ideas?

Thanks

Brom
 

My host runs PHP as CGI, not an apache module. So I can't use php_flag in .htaccess, but rather php.ini instead.

Not being sys admin, I can't modify the global php.ini file. The PHP Docs say that I can put a php.ini file in the current working directory, but elgg has 331 of these.

Does anyone know of a more elegant way to implement a local php.ini file than the nasty brute-force hack below?

Brute force hack: create a php.ini file in your elgg root directory. Then create symbolic links to it (use the absolute path!) in every subdirectory, like such (assuming you're in your elgg root dir):

find -L . -type d -exec ln -s /rootdir/php.ini '{}' ';'

(Applies to unix, by the way.)

 

I am trying to get some faculty here at Earlham College interested in using elgg as their main blogging system. But I think it would be politic to start them off with an account on elgg.net since that is more stable and less likely to screw up than my OS X server. If this takes off, we would then install elgg locally on a meaty server. In order to encourage them to do this I would want to offer the possibility of moving current content from elgg.net into their  new blog on the local elgg server. How would this be done? I don't think RSS is a solution since that only works with new content and I'm interested in moving over exisiting content.

Cheers

Mark

PS Any chance of inserting the 'heading' pulldown for Tinymce into the post body button bar? 

 

i installed elgg on my win xp pro. When I tried to login as news, it saied user not found. I can see the 'news' user record in the user table. But the password does not match the result of md5(password). I think that this is the reason. But why do i run into this? what did i do wrong during the installation? I remember that one the software i downloaded was pgn version vs md5 version. I can not remember which software (php, mysql, i can not remember. i tried to go back to download sites. But i can not find the other version.). Anyone has any suggestions?

As i was running the elgg, trying to login, i got a screen "Upgrade database? yes or no". I tried to click the no button, but the same screen keeps coming back. I finally click the yes button. It ran some database thing. Then things are ok. What's causing this?

When I register as a new user on the elgg installed on my laptop, it will try to send an email. But even when I have IIS/SMTP installed, the email still does not get sent (maybe because my laptop does not have proper domain, etc.). So is there a way to turn of the email sending feature and still allow registration of new users?

Thanks,

Mingde 

We have added a new section in our members profile section. We want our members to have the ability to enter any html and also javascript into this section. Can anyone point me in the right direction to which files or settings that we need to change for to allow this ?

Greetings all, I've just installed elgg on a site and was wondering how I could get the latest blogpostings to appear on the frontpage, like on elgg.net?

My elgg site (http://edublog.or.kr) does not show translated front page even though I translated all the phrases into Korean. It seems that gettext function does not work properly for the frontpage php file.
I wonder what is the file responsible for the frontpage.

Thanks in advance.

Jong-Dae Park

We would like to add more user types. Where can we do this ?

Hey All;

 

I built a vb.net tool to help be see how people moving around our Elgg installation. It's dirt simple & rather inefficient, but seems to do a decent job organizing apache's logs.  I'm posting it in my files for anyone who's interested in using it to view their own installation's usage history.  Please view the readme.txt for instructions on getting it setup.

On another note, today's President's Day, and I'm using the 3-day weekend to finish up v.5 of the wiki plugin.  I'm much happier with the activity page, and think that it's a definite improvement over the last version.

I have installed elgg following all of the instructions ( I think) yet I get an error when I try to open elgg at http://www.audio-tips.com/elgg/

The screen says.... 

Configuration problem: The $CFG->dirroot setting in config.php points to a directory that does not exist.

I know for a fact that the folder exists.

The configuration screen looks like:

Elgg install root
Physical path to the files (eg /home/elggserver/httpdocs/). NB: **MUST** have a final slash at the end

/public_html/elgg/data/

Any suggestions?

 

Where do we post these now?

The request that I have is the ability of a reader to see who a particular post is restricted to. At present, you can see if the post is public, logged in users, or restricted.

However, I've been thinking that you could, for example have the situation of requesting that students make posts, in their blogs, for the class to read & comment on. If the class is a community (and others outside the class also have access to the blog), then posts to that community show as "restricted". However, if the student has created a different group - then it will still show as restricted to anyone who can see it, but as a teacher, you won't know for sure that it's the right restricted group.

I hope that's clear!

Emma

Hi everyone, we upgraded from version 0.673 to 0.7 and everything went well except for one little thing, now we can't do RSS (files, blog, activity). When we click on a RSS link the page goes blank, with nothing in the logs. The aggregator and RSS link for search work fine. The weird things is that new users created after the upgrade work normal, RSS is ok. 

On the site configuration page when you click save a blank page is returned and the changes are not saved.

-rwxrwxrwx   1 www-data www-data  9075 2007-02-20 08:11 config.php

apache user and group are www-data, shouldnt have even needed 777. 

Hi all,

Been running version 0.6 quite happily, although only briefly, and have just upgraded to 0.7. I get this odd message at the top of every page though, but it all seems to be working OK. Any ideas?

Hello,

i really like the mainpage of elgg.org with the random pictures and and the news items.

How can i create this in my elgg page? 

Per myopenid.com I put the <link...> code in my index.php header, but it resulted in a number of "Cannot modify header" errors. Any instructions on how to make an Elgg site an OpenID delegate URL?

Btw, great software.

cuddy

I'm sorry if this is trivial, but I can't find any docs on how to delete a User, specifically 'news'. I've already created a new Admin. Thx.

I have ELGG installed, and everything works except for RSS feeds.  The problem seems to be that ELGG is outputting two buttons above each feed, a green one that says "To add this feed to your resources page, click here." and an orange one that says "Didn't mean to come here? Click to exit!"

 

I have noticed that other ELGG sites don't seem to have those at the top of their RSS feeds, and they work with external RSS readers such as Bloglines.  How do I get those buttons to go away so that our RSS feeds will work with Google Reader and Bloglines? 

...when i hit 'add comment' the post body box tosses up in the middle of the comments and does not display the normal options, also completely breaks the css and crops the footer...i'm on a mac, so wondering if anybody else is seeing this - though do note that i have zero issues when starting a thread from scratch (like this comment ;)

it works perfectly in Safari, just not firefox....is this a known problem     

I know that this is probably too much info, but still...

 

 

Hi,

 

I really like the concept of elgg, and am determined to get it working, but this is my 10^th attempt to do so, without success. Each time I create a new, blank database, and start with a fresh unzip of the elgg folder to avoid corruption.

 

The install always generates the series of success messages, giving me the 3 tabbed elgg admin interface, but thereafter I always end up with the problems detailed below:

 

Installed in root web folder (using WAMP, so extracted all the files into the equivalent of the htdocs folder), with the data folder as a subdirectory (I know, but I am trying to get the thing to work … I have also tried outside the path when using a sub directory, but since that install doesn’t work either, I thought I’d try this …). So far, this is the closest that I get: I had tried to use a sub directory, and set up the paths correctly, enabled mod-rewrite, modified .htaccess, and yet all I could get was the _elggadmin page, and an unformatted login page. No other pages could be found. Consequently, I created a new root web folder and installed into