Elgg 1.5 installing problem: site not displayed correctly

Hi everyone,

I am new to Elgg and right now I am asked to deploy Elgg 1.5 onto the server at my lab. Basically, I did everything that is told in http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Installation, step by step. When I finished the whole configuration(I set the view to "default") and loaded the index page in the root directory to register for new users, I came across the display problem. The page was not displayed correctly, everything was displayed in standard html, line by line, no lay out, no form, no color. I attached a screen shot of the troubled display in pic1.jpg at

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_pRyGh564Aoo/SjlDcOLTDlI/AAAAAAAAGVc/XjlyllEMhNk/s720/pic1.jpg

Thank you so much for your time and efforts! Any suggestions will be sincerely appreciated:)

  • looks like you had a install problem, I had one that happen on one install and reinstalled and it worked fine

  • Your site is not accessing CSS properly, possibly because of a problem with Elgg's CSS caching system (simplecache). You might make sure that your data directory is writable. You can also go to admin settings and turn off simplecache to see if that helps.

  • Thank you both so much!

    Yes, I actually just solved the problem earlier today. What I did was exactly like you have suggested. I turned off the Simple Cache through admin settings, and the problem was solved!:)

    Thanks again for all the help!