I was wondering if it's possible to make user1 the default friend of user2, user3 and so on? Sort of a social network thing [like MySpace]...

I was able to successfully install Elgg, but when I try to register a new account, I get an error message saying "ERROR:  Could not instantiate mail function."

Any ideas how to resolve this?  I'm running it on a Windows 2003 box with WAMP 5.

Having some torubles with the TinyMCE. We have done a new clean install and the TinyMCE is still not showing up when the user has enabled the visual editor. It also appear that the style sheet is not linking in either for the app.

Plain and simple the editor is not working out of the box. We have installed ELGG 0.8 to a LINUX box with Apache and MySQL. Our installation is up and running. Anyone else experience any issues with TinyMCE and have any solutions?

Is there something special that needs to be done at install or is this a potential server configuration problem? We are stumped!

It also appears that the style sheet is also not linking in properly. When we look at the examples folder of tinyMCE we see the editor but no styling is being applied here is a link for someone to look at: http://66.221.207.14/study/_tinymce/docs/installation_exampl The editor is working fine here without styling but in the actual ELGG blog it is not.

Hello all

 I have just installed and uploaded all the elgg files and tweaked the config file, but when I try and run elgg, I get the error

Elgg isn't ready to run. :(

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

 I have tried loads of different paths, but none of them seem to work.

 Can anyone give me a clue on what it might be?

I tried

/www/public_html/elgg/data/

/public/elgg/data/

/www/elgg/data/

and a few more, but I keep getting the same error. 

 Thanks

Mark 

Hi all,

I am brand new to elgg, and have just managed to get it running on a local server.

After a few hiccups, all appears to be running.  I can register a user, email validation works, and accounts are created and can be accessed.

However.....

I have created several accounts and each time, no profile data is created and hence, the login is useless.

Essentially, when logged in, if I click on any of the 'personalised' links in the top menu (Your Files, Your Profile etc), I get a "Not Found The requested URL /test/profile/ was not found on this server." error.  And when checking the mentioned location, there is no folder there by that name (i.e. the username).

My config.php file contains the below reference, and I am assuming this is the location where profile data should be stored.  Elgg is not pointing users to this location, nor is there any profile data stored either anyway.

 

// PROFILE LOCATION
$CFG->profilelocation = 'E:/apwebsites/musicnet/mod/profile/';

Any help would be great!  Elgg looks wonderful - can't wait to get it running live.

Thanks in advance!

Win 2003 SP2
Apache 2.2.4
MySQL 5.0.22
PHP 5.2.1

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 5898240 bytes) in /home/alcordok/public_html/nurseako/lib/db/mysql.php on line 198

Sorry I think I posted in the wrong community.. So I'm posting here again.. please help me.. I'm really intrigued with the possibilities I can do with elgg. 

Running elgg under suelinux 10.2.

Firstly when starting elgg no theme comes up not even the default one.

Secondly when I login, still no theme and clicking on the 'your' boxes along the top of the screen results in..

Object not found!

The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404

 

Any guidance would be appreciated... 

I love ELgg- thank you-

I setup Elgg and am doing very well but have a few issues. Just fyi here is my setup

http://www.multiplesnetwork.com

MY QUESTION:

The setup is great but my users are confused in one area- when it comes to networking with others-

-- When you go to a profile page and you are interested its like "OK what do i do know ?" The link to this users blog is in the sidebar near the bottom of the page- probably 9 out of 10 people dont realize its way down there.

I would like to make this link more prominent on the profile page- maybe a link next to the users name in the profile ..i.e. Kerry Mann... read Kerry's blog

I've searched for the solution but I cannot find it- how can I add this link on the profile page AND what is the code? I have mastered using {{keyword tags}} on the mod/template pages- but I don't beleive those work on other pages within the PHP ???

Hi there,

 

is there a way of letting user choose/create themes which are then displayed to others while surfing their space? Actually choosing a theme only allows a user to change the look and feel when he is logged in, right?

 

Best. 

Hi there,

is there a module or best practice for setting up a twitter-like microblogging site? I'd like to extend our elgg installation by a "what are you doing now?" feature, in the best case showing up on front page.

Hi. I'm trying to install elgg on my web host on-line, and I'm  getting an error message. which is an "Internal server error 500". On my local machine I was able to install elgg just fine, everything works, e-mail post, subscriptions etc..It's just that on my web host I'm having a problem, And I know my mod_rewrite on my host provider is working ok.. . Can anyone help me on this..........

Thanks, 

Froilan 

Hi,

Hello, I have a small problem that I think any of you expert developers and programmers can give light to.

I want to be able to get visitors in any public community  to register and instantly join directly from that community say elgg community.. can you give me some solutions on how to work that out?

 

 

I have been logging on and off for the past hour signing up the required members and then enrolling them in moderated communities.

 Now when I try to log in to my admin account I get the following error in a pink box at the top of my screen:

Unrecognised username or password. The system could not log you on, or you may not have activated your account. 

How do I correct/override this problem?

 

I love ELgg- thank you-

I setup Elgg and am doing very well but have a few issues. Just fyi here is my setup

http://www.multiplesnetwork.com

MY QUESTION:

The setup is great but my users are confused in one area- when it comes to networking with others-

-- When you go to a profile page and you are interested its like "OK what do i do know ?" The link to this users blog is in the sidebar near the bottom of the page- probably 9 out of 10 people dont realize its way down there.

I would like to make this link more prominent on the profile page- maybe a link next to the users name in the profile ..i.e. Kerry Mann... read Kerry's blog

I've searched for the solution but I cannot find it- how can I add this link on the profile page AND what is the code? I have mastered using {{keyword tags}} on the mod/template pages- but I don't beleive those work on other pages within the PHP ???

http://www.zazzah.com - I am having a heck of a time fixing the 2 problems it mentions...

any idea what my dirroot and dataroot path is?

im on a netfirms shared hosting service at www/zazzah/

I just removed the #

and the same message stil plagues me... any ideas?

#php_flag register_globals off 

I've arrived at the conclusion (based on the majority of new users on my site) that any new user registering needs a help page as the first thing they see after registering. Anyone got anything like this or considering producing something like this?

Can anyone explain why I get the following messages displayed at the top of the screen (messageshell?).

 

I've just installed Elgg on MAMP (I'm very new to Macs/Apache etc. etc.) Although the install seems to be working (just) it's extremely slow.

BTW I'm running on 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, with 2GB RAM.

Any pointers greatfully received.

Rob 

The beginning of the instructions to install elgg start with...

"Elgg currently requires the Apache web server with mod_rewrite installed and the ability to send emails"

mod_rewrite seems to be installed but I can't find any details on how to enable the sending of emails. :-(

I'm playing with MAMP if that helps!?!? 

Greets:

I don't see a topic on this via searching so I'll go ahead and ask.

Is there a way to have the end user's blogs created as subdomains off of the main site or do they have to be within subdirectories?

Thanks,

-drmike

https://69.64.87.112/

any bids on how much this will cost to fix?

 

call 858 66 8 6520 

Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to make a default profile layout.  So that for instance the Friends box and the comment wall will be on ever users profile upon creation and they can then choose not to have it there later.

I have searched this site and have not seen this answered but, if i missed something I'm sorry.

Firstly I couldn't use the online configuration and had to edit config.php manually. Then I got a server error 500 and had to delete something from .htaccess. Then I got an error message which was resolved by deleting mod/explodeping.

Finally the homepage loads but in ugly Times Roman (it seems not to be reading its stylesheet) and I am also unable to login either as "news" or as adminuser.

When I try both it says "Unrecognised username or password. The system could not log you on, or you may not have activated your account."

Any help greatly appreciated as if I could get this to work it seems ideal for my current project.

Hi
I have an idea for a blog which I might like to make which would be a forum like blog site for people to share information like on a forum. I have been reading about blogs and have seen something of what I am talking about on other peoples blogs, but of yet I haven't read how you make a blog forum like. So where can I find out how to do this? As of now I have only been studying JavaScript and not PHP or other languages. Will it be necessary for me to know other languages or get an upgrade in by webspace to PHP.

Also, a kind of blog where visitors can post and I have right to approve/dissaprove. please anyone help. i m waiting

I switched language to Spanish for my Elgg site. The registration portion works well in Spanish but once I create an account and login, all comes out in English. I have gettext and mbstring extensions running... Not sure why it switches back to English when the user logs in. Any ideas?

 

thanks, raza 

We have had an instance of a student (who should know better) posting some thoughts in his elgg blogg that he would be unwise to make public :-)

Basically, I need a way to put a "silencer" on his blog entries, en masse, until someone can have a word in his ear.   Is there anyway in which the blog of a user can be made unviewable?  Or how else do folk handle this situation?

Thanks,

 

I have been using Elgg for the 3 days, and for three weeks prior to that, was trying to install it without any success. Iwill share my experiences at some point.

I am currently customising my installation and have a few questions I wish to be assisted with. I have searched on the forum without success. However, please pardon me if the questions have been posted or answered before.

1. Howto display a either a random list or a list of the last 5 newest communities on the frontpage for logged in users? I also wish to display the last 5 registered users on the frontpage.
2. Has anyone used the Vanilla forum with elgg? It would be great if you share your experiences.
3. I need to edit my en_gb language file eg change the word 'communities' to 'committees' or the word 'blog' with 'letter'. I have tried doing this with poedit but it seems it only allows you to do a full translation, and not edit the current translation. Any ideas?
4. How do you make external RSS items autopublish to a community blog? Going the rss screens this seems possible because Elgg gives an option to publish rss feed as blog, but this doesn't seem to be working for me.


Thank you

Any one knows why none of the elgg instalations pass is the W3.org validator:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.elgg.org

Thanks

 Paulo

Is there some reason anyone can think of why members can't see other members (other than their friends) in browse?

For my site /login/index.php doesn't show theme until after 1st login. Any 1st time visitor sees something without any color or anything. My guess is the css file is not being read. Once anyone logs in once then the login page shows the theme. This happens with the default out of the box them on a new install.

Anyone have any clue as to why this might happen?

Does this happen for anyone else?

During installation on a new dev server (Win XP SP2, Apache 2.0.59, php 5.2.3, mysql 5.0.45) I get the following error messages above the page when trying to access elgg/_elggadmin

Has anyone else come across this and solved the problem?

Notice: Undefined variable: action in C:\websites\elgg\_elggadmin\lib.php on line 120

Notice: Undefined variable: action in C:\websites\elgg\_elggadmin\lib.php on line 123

Notice: Undefined variable: action in C:\websites\elgg\_elggadmin\lib.php on line 126

Notice: Undefined variable: action in C:\websites\elgg\_elggadmin\lib.php on line 129

Notice: Undefined variable: action in C:\websites\elgg\_elggadmin\lib.php on line 132

Notice: Undefined variable: action in C:\websites\elgg\_elggadmin\lib.php on line 138

Notice: Undefined index: adminid in C:\websites\elgg\_elggadmin\lib.php on line 588

Notice: Undefined index: admincode in C:\websites\elgg\_elggadmin\lib.php on line 589

I seem to be having difficulties subscribing one of my communities to an rss feed. Is this normal or something waiting to be fixed?

Managed to get LDAP auth working.

Go to myssite/elgg, enter username and password (as per AD) and voila, new account created. however if I try to click on any of the tabs/links at the top of the page (e.g. Your Blog, Your Files etc etc.) I get the error below.

I've checked that AllowOverride is set to ALL in conf file. Also checked whether mod_rewrite is enabled which it is.

Anyone got any suggestions?

 

Not Found

The requested URL /elgg/r.newton/weblog was not found on this server.

---

Apache/2.0.59 (Win32) PHP/5.2.3 Server at ilt-devpc Port 80

When I upload a 1.3Mb file to Your Files, it doesn't get a thumbnail. The file is uploaded but the thumbnail is not created. On some browsers a red X is displayed instead.

Is there a setting I can change in Elgg to sort this?

thanks,

Alistair

 

I am having 2 problems with my Elgg installation.

The Tinymce spell check hangs stating "spellchecking, please wait..."

My other problems is with the Your Resourcespage which can only connect to feeds within the Elgg system and not to any external feeds (eventually an error message is displayed when trying to subscribe).

 Can anyone shed any light on these issues?

 Thanks

I just installed elgg and it seems I'm randomly getting zero sized replies. If I refresh a few times, it will eventually come up. I've got "php_value memory_limit 96M". And in my apache logs I get "Allowed memory size of 0 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2 bytes)" or similar. So I'm gettin the feeling I'm missing some other memory setting.

Any ideas? 

I've just installed elgg on my server, and I find that users can't add files in the "Your Files" page.  The top menu and sidebar, etc. are all fine and look the same as on other pages, but the only text displayed are the two links: "Add a file or folder" and "RSS feed for files".   The RSS link works fine but the Add file link goes nowhere.  The link is just defined as <a href=#addFile>, but there is no section on the page named addFile.  In fact there is nothing more to the page than the 2 links at the top.

I can't find this problem anywhere in the forums.  Does anyone have any experience with it?

Thanks

Hi.  When I try to run _elggadmin/ for the first time I get

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/***/public_html/config.php on line 92

This is the dataroot, no matter what i put as a value for I still get this error.

Can somebody please give me an acceptable value example if that is the problem.

When I go to the 'Your profile' page and then click 'Edit this Profile', The page www.mywebsite.com/profile/edit.php?profile_id=2 is opened and I get a white page saying:
 "array ( 'context' => 'contentholder', 'title' => '<user name> :: Edit profile', 'body' =>"

Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how I can solve this?

Using Elgg 0.8, when I edit a blog post, I get a load of errors at the top of the edit page:

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in ... mod/blog/lib/weblogs_posts_edit.php on line 36

it seems to be related to the tags. Has anyone seen something similar?

 

Has anyone else come across this problem.

Everytime I visit a page from elgg.org I have to CTRL+F5 to make the CSS get applied to the page.

I'm running IE 6.0 on Windows XP.

 

Hey All,

I apologize if this has been discussed, I haven't seen anything like it when I looked through the forums.

I'm encountering a most aggervating problem whenever I attempt to incorporate my Google Analytics code into my pageshell, or do anything to edit the basic functions of the installation. I first noticed it when the "easy installation" wouldn't ever save the relevant data, however I entered it into the config file manually and all was fine. Now, when I go to change (in any way) the displayed values and click save-- the page turns white and I am forced to re-enter the page address to return to the desired screen. When I do return, however, nothing has changed.

Any suggestions offered would be greatly appreciated.

hello.

i'm having a very similar issue. i view my elgg site, and it doesn't show a style sheet, and any  options ( such as blog, etc) but i think that is due to no CSS being there. you can view it if you want.

http://www.thatsmallgroup.com/elgg

 Let me know what you think! Thanks!

I see each user has storage upto the size of the whole syste. How can I limit each user to have say 100mb by default. I do see this option in admin, but I'd like to have some DEFAULT file storage limit for a new user.

thanks

I have set up my elgg installation with no problems. However, even though I have created a profile on the site, I still get a message on the home page that says: Sorry, no users have created a profile.

 Is this supposed to auto update when someone creates a profile?

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

I installed eLGG on a dev server (XAMPP, latest build).

The installation went fine but in the end after everything finished, it keeps giving error on the login.php page.

 

Warning: file_get_contents(mod/template/templates/Default_Template/css) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\elgg\units\templates\default_template.php on line 15



Warning: file_get_contents(mod/template/templates/Default_Template/pageshell) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\elgg\units\templates\default_template.php on line 32



Warning: file_get_contents(mod/template/templates/Default_Template/frontpage_loggedout) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\elgg\units\templates\default_template.php on line 34



Warning: file_get_contents(mod/template/templates/Default_Template/frontpage_loggedin) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\elgg\units\templates\default_template.php on line 35



Warning: copy(mod/profile/profile.config.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\elgg\mod\profile\lib.php on line 60

I don't know what to make of it... can anybody please help me... please... 

I have seen this issue all around the net...but no answers.  

 

ELGG is running.  I can login andf blog and add users etc.  My site permissions have all files and folders as apache/apache and 755 with the mod/templates/ all being 777 and the data folder also 777.

When I login to the admin panel I can see the existing template.  I edited a single color value in the CSS and hit save.....then nothing but a blank page comes up and of course the site does not change.

 

Then I tried the frontpage are. Added some text to it...hit save....and the same thing. A BLANK white page and no errors.  I am on Mac OSX and using Firefox.  

No errors are showing.  

 Any ideas where to start looking?  

Tony D. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /public_html/units/bookmarks/bookmarks_posts_view.php on line 109

 This error occurs when viewing bookmarks or adding them. Any ideas?

Hi after a successful install, I can view the front page  elgg/index.php and log in as news/password, but those default tabs like Your Blog, You Files... Your Profile all don't work. The requested URL here is /elgg/news/XXX..... actually the directory News is not included in the installation package, is this true?

Besides, clicking on Administration, Account Settings, tag clouds and many other links will show a blank page with no errors, how to handle this?

 

FYI, I already increase the PHP memory to 16 MB.

 

Thanks 

Since this morning I'm getting a internal server error when opening my site.
What happened this time!?

Hello,

First off, thank you for such a great tool. I'm building a community site and elgg w/plugins is fitting the mold perfectly. I'm new to elgg and php so this is probably a fairly trivial problem for many of you. I appreciate your patience.

I installed the folio plugin and everything is working perfectly except that I get the warning "Function temp_pagesetup doesn't exist!" I've run into this problem before and have a feeling it has something to do with permissions. Does anyone have a suggestions?

Thank you.

Damon 

Hi all,

Unfortanetly I am experiencing too much problems with my host www.hostgator.com in my ellg instalattion www.formactiva.org.

Can any one suggest me a suitabble and fast/reliable server?

Thanks

Paulo 

I have this on the top of all pages! 

"Function php.ini_pagesetup doesn't exist!"

How should I fix this? 

Thanks

Paulo 

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for information on how to edit content that will remain mostly static. In particular, I'm referring to things like the Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy and FAQ. I'm new to social networking so any pointers would be greatly appreciated. I'd really appreciate a nudge in the right direction. 

Regards,

Damon 

Does anyone know if and how members can delete their own accounts?

I'm having difficulty getting elgg to use any Data folder outside of the wwwroot. It always gives gives me the 'must set write access' error message.

I've double checked the access rights for the Data folder and even got my host to do the same and it's definitely 777.

Whenever I use a Data folder inside wwwroot it accepts it fine (but this obviously isn't a desirable location).

Puzzling. Any ideas or has anyone had the same problem? 

Where do we change the Log-Off in the toolbar to another setting?

Hello all,

after installation i got some mistakes on the frontpage, they all say: "Your current dataroot directory, db/ is not writable by the webserver!"

But my dataroot is writeable, i create it new and after opening my elgg-site in a browser i got 2 new directories named cache and sessions. in the session folder (777) are a session ID with the permission 600, but all errors say they cann´t handle this.

If you want take a look, it´s under www.machoportal.de/Index.php (ok - forgot the name - i take this domain only for test-installations) there one error at start and after klick on search comes some news. Thanks a lot for a good idea :)

My install went well on a server that runs apache and sendmail.  I can sign up to the site, but never receive any emails to any account.

I have tired other web apps on the same server (open web mail) and that sends fine.

Are there any settings I can change?  I can't find any mail settings.

Andy 

I am having a problem that on my Elgg install I am unable to delete widets from the profile or blog post.  Elgg acts as if it has deleted objects but the items still remain.  Has anyone else seen this problem?  I have not been able to find it by searching this site.

I have installed Elgg on IIS and have following issues.

1. Admin settings can not be saved. Blank screen on clicking the Save button.

2. The Default Template is not displayed. 

3. After logging in as user and clicking on Your Blog/ Your Files/ Your Network/ Your Resources/ Your Profile the following error message is received.

 "The requested document was not found on this server."

The directories "Default_Template" and "Data" as also the file "config.php" are writeable. 

Please Advise further action.

Sanjay Geete

 

When i logged in as News and my password for the first time . I am in.

But when i click at Admistration link in the grey navigation bar at the top of the screen. To Add a user  and set Admin user . The page are blank.

 

The same if a guest want to register as a member/user? 

Greetings all,

I'm trying to find out any info on hardware requirements for running Elgg.

Things like, how much RAM for X users etc. If this thing comes out of testing in a favourable light I am looking at up to 30k users, with a few hundred concurrent.

Regards,

Dave 

Hello,

When I get a friend request,  there is no notification of this request, I have to go into "recent activity" or "your network" to see the friend request.  Is there a way to get notification of the request, on the main page perhaps? Thanks! --tim

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

    $CFG->dirroot = 'http://www.lindberglake.org/social_net/elgg8/';

The code above is what I have currently have in the config.php file;   This code when called via the broswer gives me the following error message :

 

Elgg isn't ready to run. :(

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

Please read the INSTALL and config-dist.php files for more information,or click here to use the friendly installer.

 

Wait one minute.   The files does to exist!!!!   What's up with this error message???????

I tried both the admin panel to install and tried following the install instructions included in the zip...

The admin panel, once I am done filling it all out, i hit the button and it goes to a blank page at http://filmmakercity.com/_elggadmin/

When I follow the directions in the install doc, I instead get:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webadmin@kundenserver.de and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

 

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

Help!