Elgg is a free and open-source social networking engine that is easy to install and set up, and then used to power your social network. Elgg is built using PHP and is based on the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern. It uses a MySQL/MariaDB database to store data.
In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Elgg on a Debian 9 VPS as well as all of the necessary components, such as the Apache web server, the MariaDB database server, and PHP.
Elgg is a free and open-source social network platform that allows users to build their own self-hosted social network environments, such as a campus-wide social network for your university, school, or college, or an internal collaborative platform for your organization.
Elgg comes with a lot of handy features out-of-the-box, such as:
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Elgg on an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS with the Nginx web server.
Elgg is an open-source social networking platform where users are able to build all kinds of social environments, such as a campus-wide social network for your university, school, or college, or an internal collaborative platform for your organization. It offers many additional features such as blogging, micro blogging, networking, groups and much more.
This step by step tutorial will show you how to install Elgg with Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. Elgg is an open source social networking engine that is easy to install and set up, then used to power your social network.
This tutorial was tested and written for an Ubuntu VPS, but it should work on any Debian based Linux distribution.
Elgg is an open source social networking engine which can be used to build all kinds of social environments. It is a PHP-based application and can easily be installed on a Linux VPS.
This install guide will help you install Elgg and it assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP 5 are already installed and configured on one of our Linux virtual server hosting plans.