Elgg - Social networking engine

Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications. It offers blogging, microblogging, file sharing, networking, groups and a number of other features.

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

• Elgg configurations:

  • Installed from upstream source code to /var/www/elgg

• SSL support out of the box.

• Adminer administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port

  12322 - uses SSL).

• Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).

• Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP, MySQL and Postfix.

Credentials (passwords set at first boot)

• Webmin, SSH, MySQL: username root
• Adminer: username adminer
• Elgg: username admin

Updating Elgg

Notes: - Elgg will not be automatically updated and must be updated manually as per

the instructions below.

• AWS Marketplace users will need to prefix most commands with 'sudo'.

• when running the 'composer' commands you will see a warning regarding running as 'root'. Hit enter to accept. Running as root is required because as a security measure, Elgg is "locked down" and only writeable by root.

• If you have any problems please contact TurnKey support: - paying users can contact TurnKey support via the TurnKey Hub or

  [email protected]

  • free users can access community support via the TurnKey forums

Steps to update: 1. create backup of your Elgg site - using TKLBAM or some other method. 2. log into a terminal of your server as the 'root' user ('admin' on AWS

Marketplace server)

3. The commands below will need to be adjusted depending on which TurnKey Elgg appliance you are running. These explictly apply to v18.x and demonstrate upgrading Elgg to v6.2.3 on:

   cd /var/www/elgg # this is only required the first time you update sed -En '/"php"/ s|(.*)8.0(.*)|18.22|p' composer.json composer --with-all-dependencies -vv require elgg/elgg:~6.2.3 # adjust the above Elgg version to upgrade to newer version. composer update -vv ./vendor/bin/elgg-cli upgrade async -v