I have a couple of RSS feeds from the BBC in my Your resources  which have stopped updating. Taking another feed form the same site it get

Feed subscription failed: could not get feed. Please check your link or try later.

Error message was: connection failed (2)

Any idea why it is getting blocked? The server has been moved to a new location and this does seem to have happened about the same time. However using the same URL with wget the server does connect and download the xml file so I am sure the FW settings are correct. Everything else seems to be OK.

just wondering if there's a way to change the redirect upon login so that a user will remain on the page he/she is at...a typical scenario: a user browses around, sees a cool post and is compelled to reply, but then realizes he's forgotten to log in so logs in up top and then gets bumped back to the home page! thsi makes it tedious to get back to the content, particularly when one has drilled down into some random forum or followed a profile through to a thread and so on...

Really liking Elgg, but I'm still getting an internal 500 error that doesn't seem to be connected to php.ini with register_globals off.  When I hit the HTML in the forum or the smilie, I'm getting 500 errors as follows:

 

For the html:

 

500 Server Error

A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix the problem, then try again.

URL: http://www.nameofmysite.com/elgg/_tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/

And for the smilies:

500 Server Error

A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix the problem, then try again.

URL: http://www.nameofmysite.com/elgg/_tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins

I've tried using RewriteBase into the subdirectory,  and that did nothing to change it.

 

Tried adding suPHP_ConfigPath and that just messed things up.

 

I've changed the actual name of my website for security purposes.

 

Can anybody help?

 

Thanks!

Alex 

 

Hi all,

We're going to try some cross-Elgg searching, using a service we've developed as a bridge. Would any of you be interested in participating in the trial?

The requirements are that you need to not be running in a walled garden, must have left one of town, skills and interests intact in your profile configs, and can ping external sites without the use of CURL etc.

If anyone's interested, comment below or send us an email. 

hello all, i've spent a few minutes editing the wiki and added a page to help users quickly find all discussions in which users are discussing modifications and changes to alter the basic elgg installation.

Hello!Does anyone know how to configure server to use non-english tags (written in Bulgarian for example) in Tag cloud.The tags are displayed correctly in my language(BG-windows-1251), but when clicked, an error 404 is received or Searching ????????? with no result returned.Any ideas?

i notice that the search only only searches for keyword instances - unless i've installed something incorrectly. is this true? can it be set to also search all content (e.g. "everything" from the drop down, versus just 'people and/or communities'?

okay, so i uploaded it and edited the rewrite rules into the htaccess file, then i logged in as admin and saw 'your subscription' in toolbar, clicked it, saw my two test communities, and then when i checked one and clicked subscribe it said there were errors in the modify_subscr file (lines 59 and 68 or something, i think)..then i clicked back and it said error in lib.php

Register_globals is turned off on my domain.

So, for what reason am I still getting the error message telling me to turn it off?

For example: http://hompagz.50webs.net/mod/browser/

~Brandon

The visual editor does not work for Korean language setting even here.

Thanks in advance.

Wanna know if this really works. Editing the wiki does not.

If I am not using elgg to inform users of their usernames and passwords (I am not allowing self-registration) then do users HAVE to have email addresses? If I create unique but dummy ones will everything still work? Or even not supply an email address at all?

It does appear to with a test user but I thought I ask in case there is something I don't know about that will trip me up later!

Thanks.

I like the new forum view ... but, I've just realised that the order of posts is the order of creation - not the order of last comment, as is more common in fora. Could that lead to newer comments not getting noticed, if they are a way down the page?

hi, i'm interested in using google analytics on my site - but i'm not sure where to put the code. it's supposed to be inserted into each page one wishes to have tracked or via an urchin call...see this for more: https://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=

Hello,

I installed elgg 0.7 on my local xampp (OS X) and after 2 or 3 tries everything works fine - besides the fact that I can not open any page except the index.php and, every 10th try, the editor for new posts. I am able to log in. But whatever I write in the blogeditor (when it's finally opened) is not written to the database.

From time to time I only receive an blank page, but that is only about as often as the blogeditor is shown. Most of the time the browser is loading till eternity, without anything else happening

Any ideas? 

Does anyone have a problem with the spell checker on a PC? It seems to work OK on my Mac (both Safari and Firefox) but on my PC (WinXP) in either IE or Firefox. Is this a known issue? Have I missed something? The error in IE is something along the lines of cannot open AJAX call and server not replying with valid XML: as this works on my Mac I suspect this is an IE issue. Firefox just flashes something I can't read then does nothing!

Curious! - just checked this here and it works. So it is just my install that I'm getting this problem. Anyone any ideas?

I have made changes to our elgg site that will allow members to add html and some script to their profile sections. I m having some difficulty with the css though. Can anyyone let me know what I need to do to have this code work.The code that members will be entering is below

 

<style type="text/css">
ul#darmikStoreList, ul#darmikStoreList ul {
  padding-left: 0px;  /* stops the usual ul indenting */
  margin-left: 0px;   /* Opera 7 workaround */
}
ul#darmikStoreList li {
  border: 1px solid #b0b0ff;
  padding: 2px;
  -moz-border-radius: 5px;
}
ul#darmikStoreList {
  width: 150px;
}
ul#darmikStoreList a {
  text-decoration: none;
}
ul#darmikStoreList li {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0px;           /* Opera 7 fix */
  position: relative;    /* lack of offset dosen't change position, but makes difference with absolutely posititon children */
  background-color: white; /* transparent lets other elements bleed through... */
}
#darmikStoreList ul.darmikItemList { 
  display: none;
  position: absolute;
  top: 2px;
  left: 148px;
  width: 200px;
}
#darmikStoreList li:hover {
  background-color: #d0d0ff;
}
#darmikStoreList > li:hover ul.darmikItemList {
  display: block;
}
a.darmikItemImage:hover { background-color: #f90; }
a.darmikItemImage + img { display: none; }
a.darmikItemImage:active, a.darmikItemImage:focus { display: none; }
a.darmikItemImage:active + img, a.darmikItemImage:focus + img { display: inline; }
</style>
<div id="darmikStore">
<ul id="darmikStoreList">
<li>Songs for the source&nbsp;&gt;&gt;<ul class="darmikItemList">
<li>
<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="darmikItemImage">(+)</a><img src="http://www.darmik.com/web/content/images/I157.jpg" width="130" />
<a href="javascript:void(0)" Xonclick="window.open('http://www.darmik.com/web/catalog_file.php?FileId=151&Lis);">
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</a></li>
</a>
</ul></li>
</ul>
</div>

Hey there, anyone getting LDAP to work successfully with Active Directory? I can bind to AD but then it never finds the user. ANy help would be great.

Thanks 

Installation went fine,

Created a user, and logged in as user.

create a folder within the myfiles.  When I click on the edit link I get the fallowing error (took out my domain directory info and placed a "....." in its place)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mb_detect_encoding() ...../lib/php-getttext/gettext.inc on line 101

is it just me, or is this 'page 2' link bugging out? 

okay, so per my other post, i copied the structure and set up for the terms of use and privacy statement code (put a new page in the content folder called advanced.php for the new content_main_advanced.php page which includes the google coop code such that the results can be displayed inside the page/site)

Becasue the _elggadmin tool does not work (will not write new settings) I need to set this manually, does anyone know where I can set this?

 

Maximum disk space
The maximum disk space taken up by all uploaded files

After 27 failed attempts to install on windows and ongoing fights to set permissions for folders, I downlaoded VMware server and a copy of fedora ... finally, last night I managed to get elgg up and running, and was left scratching my head, wondering what to do next!

A couple of qestions:

in XP I use a useful tool called "test mail server tool" This listens to and intercepts all amail from local host, allowing me to send reg emails to "new" users and intercept them myself. Does anyone know of a way to do this in linux?

Alternatively, what data needs adding to the database to create new users manually ?

 This imples a feature request: I plan on running elgg within my school of 450 students. It would be handy to be able to bulk import a user list.

 

thanks for all the previous support 

I installed Elgg last night without any real issues and it worked perfectly out of the box except for one small issue.. Whenever I registered an account using my personal address (xxx@galacticat.org) it did not send me any kind of emails, but when I registered using a Yahoo email address it worked fine.

I think the issue is that I'm using Google Apps to handle all my domain's email accounts and don't actually have any kind of email service setup with my host. My question basically is, is this the problem? And is there any way that I could make things work with the gApps email accounts?

Probably a permissions issue but not sure what file(s) I need to change if this is the case.  I temporarily set a chmod 777 on the main config.php file but believe there are other files.  Does someone have a recommended list of chmod settings that need to be set on files?

To the point, I am logged on to mydomainname/_elggadmin/frontpage.php and click on Front page tab.  I then try to edit the Front page blocks (logged out/in) and then click Save but am greeted with a blank white page and do not notice the changes having been made on my site's home page.  When I click the browser back arrow, my changes are lost.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.  Thanks! 

http://explode.elgg.org/

 Is this available as an elgg module/plug-in?
 

Hi,

 i found some example-html in the profile-folder for tabbed userdatas, how could i activate that for the user-profile-display - not the editing.

 

kr

 

stefan 

I need to have several profile types that will have profile fileds that are very different from one another. Is there a way to do this ? Currenty there are two, person and group, and each has the same profile fields....Most of my types will have different fileds....this also means that I will need to find a way to have new members say what profile type they are at sign up.

Hi,

 

it is possible to configure elgg fpr payment. there should be a usergroup with less rights, for example to join diff. communitys, and usergroup which could join communitys.

Regarding  to groups i have a nother question, i seein the database a tabele groups, which functions does have groups, doesn't find any informations about that. It is possible to define different groups with different right? 

kr

 

Stefan 

is there a specific advantage or reason for doing this file naming (convention)? will the site bug out if renamed as css.css (instead of no extension)?

I am getting lots of PHP Notices on every page i load. I am not sure how I fix the suposed problem or hide the messages.

The following messages I get when i load the Administation page. 

Notice: Undefined variable: action in /path/to/lib.php on line 113

Notice: Undefined variable: action in /path/to/lib.php on line 116

Notice: Undefined variable: action in /path/to/lib.php on line 119

Notice: Undefined variable: action in /path/to/lib.php on line 122

Notice: Undefined variable: action in /path/to/lib.php on line 125

Notice: Undefined variable: action in /path/to/lib.php on line 131

Notice: Undefined index: theme in /path/to/lib.php on line 607

Notice: Undefined index: frontpage in /path/to/lib.php on line 608

Notice: Undefined index: profile in /path/to/lib.php on line 609

Notice: Undefined index: plugins in /path/to/lib.php on line 610

 

 

so i though that it was supposed to work like this: i join a community, then when i start a thread it shows "my name @ the community" under my little picture or whatever, and then people reply...

Hello experts.  My name is Noel and i am so very much a novice at this programming stuff.  I need help.  I want to be able to set up (nothing fancy) a site for learners of English in China.  I teach at Southern medical University in Guangzhou and I want to be able to send my students to this site, and to be able to post useful articles and other learning materials on the site.  I need a good looking template of theme and i have no idea how to get started.  Please, if someone out there cpould get me started in the right direction i would be eternally greatful.  My email is jah_managod@yahoo.com

God Bless,

noel

Howdy . Getting this error from anything referenced or uncomented in .htaccess file. any ideas?

/home/bla/public_html/.htaccess: Invalid command 'php_value', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

receiving 500 error. when re commented it works fine howver images do not appear.

 cheers

 

juankerr

Hi friends,

I recently installed the elgg in a subfolder of my website (http://www.meditationiseasy.com/community/ ) . I intend to use elgg as a community platform for the visitors of  my website who will be interested in sharing/discussing various meditation techniques/yoga tips.

During installation, I manually changed the config.php file and upload it to my server. Everything went fine and elgg got installed smoothly. I am also able to login into my account as user 'News'. However, I am unable to login into my admin area. As per installation instructions, I should be able to login in to my admin area using the main email address and news initial password. However, whenever I entered these details I got this error :

The username and password you specified did not match the admin details for this system.

I have checked and recheked the config.php for the admin email and password. I even chekced the config.php file in the _elggadmin/ folder and entered password manually. But to no avail. I am simple not able to login in to my admin area.

Please help me as I really want to start using this wonderful software as soon as possible.

Regards

hi, i've only been on and around here for a few weeks actively but see already that people are posting tons of similar questions, and i suspect that it is because they are searching 'tags' and not content (tags are great for networking and interests, but not always technical discussions)

Hi

on my umteenth attempt at an install, this time on linux, still getting 404 errors.

1 Open config-dist

1i add path to elgg folder for server

1ii add actual path to folder (check this using the graphical installer - ok)

1iii add data dir path (query: should this be the actual path or the http path?)

1iv add news password

1v add admin user name and password

1vi add db details

1vii save as config.php

2 open htaccess

2i add rewrite rule

2ii save as .htaccess

3 create data folder

4 chmod 777 data folder

5 iopen httpd.conf

5ii add overwriteall rule as per guide

6 run install - get a series of messages

7 try to log in and create content

8 scream loudly - 404 errors yet again!

9 try aroundme from barnraiser

Any ideas? 

Looking through the number of probs that people encounter, surely the install is something that needs tweeking (please!)?

 

Getting a bunch of these errors on install, how can I correct this? 

 

1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'COMMENT '-> users.ident', `group_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT '-> g' at line 1

            adodb_mysql._execute(CREATE TABLE `elgggroup_membership` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT ..., false) % line  889, file: adodb.inc.php
         adodb_mysql.execute(CREATE TABLE `elgggroup_membership` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT ...) % line   38, file: datalib.php
      execute_sql(CREATE TABLE `elgggroup_membership` (  `ident` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0' COMMENT ...) % line  188, file: datalib.php
   modify_database(/var/www/html/utahseduction.com/lib/db/mysql.sql) % line   27, file: dbsetup.php
require_once(/var/www/html/utahseduction.com/lib/dbsetup.php) % line  103, file: includes.php 

Hi everyone

I'm in the process of trying to install elgg onto my site, but I've run into two problems.

The first one involved the _elggadmin dir not saving (resulting in a white/blank screen), and I fixed that with the function that modifies the output for non PHP5 installs.  Thanks for that.

But, I have a problem that I couldn't find an answer to on the forum... When I go to the main page, I get a bunch of MySQL error output.  The first few tables create/install fine, but for the rest I get an error back that there's an "error in the MySQL syntax at..." and they fail to create.

I've tried everything I can think of.  Any ideas or help is appreciated.

Thanks

--Kyle 

i'm almost finished installing elgg dat keep get

Elgg isn't ready to run. :(

• Configuration problem: The PHP setting 'register_globals', which is a huge security risk, is turned on. There should be a line in the .htaccess file as follows: php_flag register_globals off If the line is present but has a # at the start, remove the # character.

 wat i'm suppost to do so solve that plobleem 

please a need help i'm new on elgg 

The upgrade instructions note that:

"Users running Elgg 0.4 can upgrade using the same mechanism, but there are known issues with the file structure. From Elgg 0.6 onwards, all uploaded files and icons are stored in an Elgg data directory; you will need to define this and more in config.php ..."

Does this mean that I will need to manually move any files that have already been uploaded into the new data directory as well? If so, can anyone point me to the location of uploaded files in version 0.4?

Thank you,

Jeffrey 

When a user try to add images, he gets following options :

Image URL
Image description
Alignment	-- Not set -- Baseline Top Middle Bottom TextTop Absolute Middle Absolute Bottom Left Right
Dimensions	x
Border
Vertical space
Horizontal space

Suppose the image reside in his hard drive, what will be the Image URl. Should n't there be a browse button for uploading images ?

Yeah got it working, two questions...

How can a normal non admin user invite someone else in?

Who can I hug for making this?

 lol, thanks guys.  Got a few small plugin's I'll be working on :)

Last night I worked out where I had been going wrong after all my failed installs: I had been creating folders and granting permissions as an admin user; when apache was running, it didn't have the relevant rights to access the folders - creating a standard user and creating the folders as this user works - finally, after all these months! 

However, I'm still getting the "error has occured - please restart browser (continue)"

and whenever I select the "post new entry" option I get a warning that: Real path failed.

any ideas? 

 

PS I have just logged in as admin, and when I run ellg, I get the message that the folder I created for data under the standard user is no longer writable, and that the function:

 Aargh!

hi, i'd like to add some text to this email that goes out to new users and include a brief 'hello' note (e.g. 'be sure to fill out your profile, add keywords, read the user guide' etc)

hi all,

I have searched the forum archives but found no references to the problem I'm having; I have installed Elgg 0.7 on a RHEL 4 server, using Postgresql (there were a few syntax errors in the postgres7.sql file, but I fixed those and submitted a patch to info AT curverider.co.uk) and Apache 2.0.52 with PHP 5.1.2, php-ldap, php-gd and php-pgsql.

After having fixed the SQL commands, and having restarted from scratch with an empty database, when I go to the Elgg root for the first time, all the SQL tables and other structures are created, and I see the "Yay!" at the bottom of the page.

However when I click on the "Continue" button, all I see is a page with four strings "Error", each on its own line, but no details on the errors. And a "Continue" button again. Pressing it I am still brought to the same page.

I am not sure where to look for the actual errors as there are no further info on the page (not even with "php_flag display_errors on"), and no script name and line numbers.

Has anyone experienced this or has hints about where to look for the source of errors in the PHP code? 

thank you,

Andrea 

 

Is there a way to have the security access level of the wiki folio plug in match those  of elgg....I want to allow users to restrict editing of the wikik to those that are part of a community or are a friend etc..

Hi,

After installing Elgg onto an Apache 2.x box running Ubuntu I'm still getting 404 errors. I'm able to create users and have users log in, but after they create a blog entry or anything else I get the error:

The requested URL /_weblog/index.php was not found on this server.

Of course _weblog/index.php does exist under the elgg folder.

The mod_rewrite module is loaded so I'm not sure if that's the problem or if I have a permissions issue.

The url to the test site is: http://74.228.228.230/elgg/

You can use the username: testuser and the password of test if you want to try it for yourself.

I have read the notes on 404's but so far it's still giving me this. Not sure what other questions I can answer for you.

Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated. 

I'm planning on using Elgg in a secondary school; some of the tags are irrelevant(e.g. level of education) and some are not likely to be looked on favourably by the SMT (phone, address etc).

Please would someone point me towards the file needed to modify this /remove some of the info - thanks

Also, I still get the "real path failed" whenever I click on the "Post a new entry" link, and checking the location of the data folder (web root not plugins) doesn't solve the "Function elgg_data_apache_pagesetup doesn't exist!" message that is permanently displayed ...  any ideas welcome

 

okay, my site is pretty fast, though sometimes the front page loads after delay - but elgg.org, this site, it's always ridiculously fast...is there something that you're doing (or not doing)? is it the number/nature of plugins? container for sql? storage space? 

Interesting error, trying out the software at http://bollywood.urrgh.com/elgg and I can log in as the admin, I can make users, but apache does not seem to make the required user directory in the root elgg/ folder when the user is created. So I get a pile of 404's for each user created.

 Problem - user directory is not made when a user is added to the system

User directory is not populated with nessissary information - user gets 404 after creation

Please let me know how to fix this. Thanks! r/d

Our Elgg insall is based on an IRC community, and we commonly have to use the '<' character (left & right carat) (also called 'less than' and 'greater than') symbols (not sure if it will show up here, so wanted to clarify.

When we use those characters in page contect, they simply disappear. when you go to edit the post, they are no longer there , just a blank space. Anyt thoughts ?

Also, we have 2 of those characters in the page title. it displays perfectly in the footer, but in the title bar, it shows up as: <title>IRC&amp;lt;nick&amp;gt;.info</title> the browser never parses it... im confused. here's the line:

 $CFG->sitename = 'IRC&lt;nick&gt;.info';

Thoughts or help ? 

okay, so i spent that past few days trying tons of different sitemap generators for google.yahoo.msn crawling...some were installed apps (mac), but too slow for my tastes..others were online, but didn't work too well...

Hi,

I'm trying to do my first step in Elgg and I got stuck with PHP and MySQL problem during the Installation. I get the following message:

Installation problem: Can't find the PHP MySQL or Postgresql module. Even with PHP and MySQL or Postgresql installed, sometimes the module to connect them is missing. Please check your PHP installation.

I couldn't find solution for this problem by searching. Could one of you help me about that?

Thankx & Cheers,

Ashton Fulbright

 

 

i got this error when i try to upload elgg from my localhost to my hosting, i've been edit config.php to match with hosting config, i also have rename htaccess-dist to .htaccess

but it's always got same error, what could it be? thx for advance

Error message : 

Elgg still isn't ready to run just yet.

(Sorry.)

You're going to need to rename the htaccess-dist file that came with your installation (it's in the main installation directory) to .htaccess.

If you're using a Windows server, this is a bit of a problem. Windows doesn't like files starting in a period, but there's a workaround: open htaccess-dist in Notepad, click Save As, change the file type pulldown to all files (*.*), and type .htaccess in the filename box.

If you're using any other kind of server, all is well with the world. (If you're uncertain, try renaming the file: most servers run on Linux or a similar operating system.)

Read the INSTALL file that came with your installation for more information about installing Elgg.

many user upload spam file on server?

how can i manage file on a list

How do you remove a community

After installing elgg I get this:

Error

Error

Submit

 

What did I do wrong?

Downloaded elgg on 03/20/07, the elgg/news folder is missing and getting 404 errors. I tried downloading from a different mirror, but still no news folder.