{"id":18441,"date":"2016-01-12T14:41:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/?p=18441"},"modified":"2022-12-09T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:56:13","slug":"how-to-install-elgg-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/how-to-install-elgg-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install Elgg with Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18447 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elgg-vps.png\" alt=\"elgg vps\" width=\"144\" height=\"76\" \/>This step by step tutorial will show you <strong>how to install Elgg with Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS<\/strong>. Elgg is an open source social networking engine that is easy to install and set up, then used to power your social network.<br \/>\nThis tutorial was tested and written for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/ubuntu-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ubuntu VPS<\/a>, but it should work on any Debian based Linux distribution.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAt the time of writing of this tutorial, Elgg 2.0.1 is the latest and recommended version and it requires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apache or Nginx web server with support for URL rewriting<\/li>\n<li>PHP (version 5.5 or better) with GD graphics library and mbstring extension library.<\/li>\n<li>MySQL (version 5 or better) installed on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linux VPS<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make sure your OS package list and the OS packages are up to date by running the following commands:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get upgrade<\/pre>\n<p>Stop and remove Apache2 service:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo service apache2 stop\r\nsudo apt-get remove apache2\r\nsudo apt-get autoremove<\/pre>\n<p>Install Nginx and MySQL on your virtual server:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get install nginx mysql-server<\/pre>\n<p>Configure nginx to start on boot:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo update-rc.d -f nginx defaults<\/pre>\n<p>Install PHP and PHP modules required by Elgg:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install php5 php5-cli php5-fpm php5-mysql php5-gd<\/pre>\n<p>Download the latest version of Elgg at https:\/\/elgg.org\/download.php and upload it to the &#8216;opt&#8217; directory on your server:<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/opt\/\r\nwget https:\/\/elgg.org\/getelgg.php?forward=elgg-2.0.1.zip -O elgg-2.0.1.zip\r\nunzip elgg-2.0.1.zip\r\nmv elgg-2.0.1 \/var\/www\/elgg\/<\/pre>\n<p>It is recommended to use an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/ssl-certificates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSL certificate<\/a> for your Elgg installation. Save the SSL certificate and its private key to files named &#8216;file.crt&#8217; and &#8216;private.key&#8217; respectively and upload them to &#8216;\/etc\/nginx&#8217; directory.<br \/>\nRemove the default Nginx server block, then create a new Nginx configuration file and add the following virtual block for your domain name:<\/p>\n<pre>rm \/etc\/nginx\/sites-enabled\/default\r\nvi \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/your-domain.com.conf<\/pre>\n<p>Add the following lines:<\/p>\n<pre>server {\r\nlisten 80;\r\n# If you have an SSL certificate, uncomment the 3 lines below:\r\n# listen 443 ssl;\r\n# ssl_certificate \/etc\/nginx\/file.crt;\r\n# ssl_certificate_key \/etc\/nginx\/private.key;\r\n\r\n\tserver_name your-domain.com;\r\n\troot \/var\/www\/elgg\/;\r\n\tindex index.php index.html index.htm;\r\n\t\r\n\tgzip on;\r\n\tgzip_types\r\n\t\ttext\/css\r\n\t\ttext\/javascript\r\n\t\ttext\/xml\r\n\t\ttext\/plain\r\n\t\ttext\/x-component\r\n\t\tapplication\/javascript\r\n\t\tapplication\/x-javascript\r\n\t\tapplication\/json\r\n\t\tapplication\/xml\r\n\t\tapplication\/rss+xml\r\n\t\tfont\/truetype\r\n\t\tfont\/opentype\r\n\t\tapplication\/vnd.ms-fontobject\r\n\t\timage\/svg+xml;\r\n\r\n\taccess_log \/var\/log\/nginx\/your-domain.com-access.log;\r\n\terror_log \/var\/log\/nginx\/your-domain.com-error.log;\r\n\r\n\tclient_max_body_size 8M;\r\n\r\n\tlocation ~ (^\\.|\/\\.) {\r\n\t\treturn 403;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\tlocation = \/rewrite.php {\r\n\t\trewrite ^(.*)$ \/install.php;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\tlocation \/ {\r\n\t\ttry_files $uri $uri\/ @elgg;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\tlocation ~ \\.php$ {\r\n\t\ttry_files $uri @elgg;\r\n\t\tfastcgi_index index.php;\r\n\t\tfastcgi_pass localhost:9000;\r\n\t\tfastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;\r\n\t\tinclude \/etc\/nginx\/fastcgi_params;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\tlocation @elgg {\r\n\t\tfastcgi_pass localhost:9000;\r\n\r\n\t\tinclude \/etc\/nginx\/fastcgi_params;\r\n\t\tfastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root\/index.php;\r\n\t\tfastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME     \/index.php;\r\n\t\tfastcgi_param QUERY_STRING    __elgg_uri=$uri&amp;$args;\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Do not forget to replace your-domain.com with your actual domain name.<\/p>\n<p>Enable the new Nginx configuration file:<\/p>\n<pre>ln -sf \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/your-domain.com.conf \/etc\/nginx\/sites-enabled\/<\/pre>\n<p>Open the &#8216;\/etc\/php5\/fpm\/pool.d\/www.conf&#8217; configuration file and change the &#8216;listen&#8217; variable from:<\/p>\n<pre>listen = \/var\/run\/php5-fpm.sock<\/pre>\n<p>to<\/p>\n<pre>listen = 127.0.0.1:9000;<\/pre>\n<p>Test the Nginx configuration:<\/p>\n<pre># nginx -t\r\nnginx: the configuration file \/etc\/nginx\/nginx.conf syntax is ok\r\nnginx: configuration file \/etc\/nginx\/nginx.conf test is successful<\/pre>\n<p>Restart php5-fpm and Nginx services for the changes to take effect:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo service php5-fpm restart\r\nsudo service nginx restart<\/pre>\n<p>Set the proper permissions of the &#8216;\/var\/www\/elgg&#8217; directory:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo chown www-data:www-data -R \/var\/www\/elgg\/<\/pre>\n<p>Elgg needs a special directory outside of the document root to store uploaded files including profile icons and photos, so create a directory and set proper permissions using the following commands:<\/p>\n<pre>mkdir -p \/opt\/data\r\nchmod 770 \/opt\/data\r\nchown www-data \/opt\/data<\/pre>\n<p>Also, Elgg requires a MySQL database, so create a new MySQL user and database:<\/p>\n<pre>mysql -u root -p\r\nmysql&gt; create database elggdb;\r\nmysql&gt; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON elggdb.* TO 'elgguser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Y0UR-PASSW0RD';\r\nmysql&gt; flush privileges;\r\nmysql&gt; quit<\/pre>\n<p>Do not forget to replace &#8216;Y0UR-PASSW0RD&#8217; with a strong password.<br \/>\nOpen http:\/\/your-domain.com\/install.php in your favorite web browser and follow the on-screen instructions: enter the database username, password and database name, site name, site email address, data directory and create an administrator account.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elgg-back-end-300x171.png\" alt=\"elgg back-end\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elgg-back-end-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elgg-back-end-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elgg-back-end-1024x584.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/elgg-back-end.png 1342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is it. The Elgg installation is complete.<br \/>\nOf course you don\u2019t have to do any of this if you use one of our <a title=\"Linux VPS Hosting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosehosting.com\/managed-vps-hosting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linux VPS Hosting<\/a> services, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to <strong>install Elgg with Nginx<\/strong> for you. They are available 24&#215;7 and will take care of your request immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PS<\/span>.<\/strong> If you liked this post please share it with your friends on the social networks using the buttons on the left or simply leave a reply below. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This step by step tutorial will show you how to install Elgg with Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. 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