sixphere/elgg-php7 repository overview

⁠What is Elgg ?

Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.

For more information and related for Elgg, please visit www.elgg.org⁠.

⁠How to use this image

Before you start you need to have installed:

• composer: https://getcomposer.org/download/⁠
• docker: http://docs.docker.com/linux/step_one/⁠ or https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/⁠
• docker-compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/⁠

⁠Running multi-container applications with docker-compose

$ docker-compose up -d

⁠Modify Elgg settings

$ cp ELGG_PATH/vendor/elgg/elgg/elgg-config/settings.example.php ELGG_PATH/elgg-config/settings.example.php

⁠Follow Elgg installation

Go to ELGG_WWW_ROOT/install.php and follow the installation steps.

⁠Remove installation files

Please, remove the installation files by security.

$ rm ELGG_PATH/install.php
$ rm ELGG_PATH/upgrade.php

⁠Environment Variables

When you start the elgg-docker image, you can adjust the configuration of the elgg instance by passing one or more environment variables. The default values are in Dockerfile file.

web:
  image: keviocastro/elgg-docker:2.0
  environment:
    MYSQL_USER: elgg
    MYSQL_PASS: elgg-pass
    ELGG_DISPLAY_NAME: my-name
    ELGG_DB_PREFIX: my-elgg
    TIMEZONE: America/Sao_Paulo

• TIMEZONE The timezone of the server and php
• MYSQL_USER The DB username to create
• MYSQL_PASS The DB password to set on the created user
• ELGG_DB_HOST The DB host Elgg will use
• ELGG_DB_USER The DB user Elgg will use
• ELGG_DB_PASS The DB password Elgg will use
• ELGG_DB_PREFIX Elgg's DB prefix
• ELGG_DB_NAME The name of the DB Elgg will use
• ELGG_SITE_NAME Elgg's site name
• ELGG_SITE_EMAIL Elgg site email address
• ELGG_WWW_ROOT Elgg's www_root (Don't change this unless you modify run.sh and the installation)
• ELGG_DATA_ROOT The data_root for Elgg (/media)
• ELGG_DISPLAY_NAME The display name for the admin user
• ELGG_EMAIL The email address for the admin user (must be a well-formed, though not necessarily value, address)
• ELGG_USERNAME The username of the admin user
• ELGG_PASSWORD The password for the admin user
• ELGG_PATH The location Elgg is installed (Don't change this unless you modify run.sh and the installation)
• ELGG_SITE_ACCESS The default site access