ELGG (Open source) hosting

[Floods]

Hi,

I am planning to build a website using ELGG open source code (Elgg.org) on Linux Web Hosting and EUKHost is my preferred supplier.

I think it should be a reasonably simple install, here is a link to the install guide...

http://elgg.org/mod/mediawiki/wiki/i...allation_guide

I was not sure about the following....
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3.5 Elgg in a subdirectory and 404 errors
If you are running Elgg in a subdirectory of your web website, and when browsing around it pages seem to be missing, you may also need to edit the .htaccess file. Below the "RewriteEngine on" line, add a line:

RewriteBase /subdirectory/
changing subdirectory to the location of Elgg relative to your overall web

For example, if your website is http://example.com/ and Elgg is in http://example.com/sites/elgg/ try adding the line: RewriteBase /sites/elgg/

If you're not running Elgg in a subdirectory on your website, but still getting lots of 404 errors beyond the front page, you could instead try:

RewriteBase /
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If the Domain points to my webspace do I need to wory about this?

Do you see any other issues which could be a problem with your systems policy?

Thanks in Advance, Sean Flood

[eUKhost.com]

Hello Sean,

I dont see anything that would stop Elgg from working on our servers. Almost all CMS, Blogs and portals need mod_rewrite so making rewrite rule takes no time. We also have tutorial for .htaccess generator in tutorials section of this forum so that should help you to write mod_rewrite rules.

If you wont install Elgg in subdirectory then you wont need to bother about those mod_security rules.