Default homepage shows Xampp landing page

HI,

Everything looks to have installed fine with my insallatiton but when I go in to browse to my domain, it comes up with the default Xampp page that comes up when you successfully install/configure it and Apache.

I cant figure out how to get it to point to the actual elgg landing page by default for my outside users.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

  •  
    saw your installation it is necessary to put
    The website URL: http: // localhost / elgg /
    The full path of the Elgg installation: c: / xampp / htdocs / elgg /
    the full path of the data directory: c: / xampp / elggdatadirectory \
  • The site url and the paths you have to provide during installation depends on where you copied the elgg files to. The url http://localhost would point to C:\xampp\htdocs. If you have extracted the Elgg zip for example into C:\xampp\htdocs\elgg, you would have to go to http://localhost/elgg to start the installation process.

    In case you have copied the Elgg files in a subdirectory of htdocs, you most likely need to make an adjustment in the .htaccess file before starting the installation. You would have to adjust the RewriteBase according to the path where Elgg is installed to relative to the htdocs folder. So, in case of Elgg in C:\xampp\htdocs\elgg you would have to set RewriteBase to /elgg/ (don't forget to remove the # at the beginning of the line in .htaccess).

    It might also be necessary to enable mod_rewrite in the Apache config of XAMPP (see http://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/intro/install/xampp.html). This module is necessary for the rewrite rules of Elgg to work.

    Regarding the path to the datadirectory: would it add the backslash also if you already add a slash at the end (C:/xampp/elggdatadirectory/)?

  • Hello,

    I've also got the error "Warning:  "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use "continue 2"?"

    The script was all working perfectly, then suddenly this happened. I have not changed anything in the script. I have asked the host company if they have changed anything. They asked me if the script is compatible with php 7.2, so I think they updated to php 7.2. I've told them it is compatible.

    Do you know what is causing this error? The site is now completely broken.

    The error messages refers to elgg-2.3.3/vendor/elgg/elgg/engine/lib/input.php on line 290

  • This error is related with your PHP version 7.x (I've it on my few sites too) and cannot cause your site to crash.

  • My site no longer loads.

    What do I do to fix it?

  • I switched the hosting back to php 5.6 and it has fixed it!

    So what alteration do I need to make to make it work on php 7.3 ?

  • I can only advise you to switch to a new Elgg 3.x version

  • Can that be done without wiping out your site?