I just made a huge mistake. I am new to elgg, so this is not something I expected. I went under advanced settings and changed the name of my site from "elgg" to "community". The site stopped working so I tried to go back and change it, but it won't let me change it. It still says 404 Not found. What can I do to solve this issue?
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You must log in to post replies.can you access your site at all? Changing the name is a perfectly safe operation, either you changed the wrong field thinking it was the name (url maybe?) or it's something completely unrelated.
Is your entire domain coming up as a 404 or just the settings page? Is it the server 404 page or the elgg 404 page?
I can access it only if I type the original name www.christianime.com/elgg instead of what I changed it to www.christianime.com/community. I am able to access the administrator site when I replace the community word with elgg. But when I try to change it back to the original name, it comes up as 404. It doesn't work.
I went under advanced settings under admin. Afterward I changed the URL name from www.christianime.com/elgg to www.christianime.com/community. Now I have 0 access to my site when I type it in. Tried to change it under the advanced settings the same way I did before, but it always redirects me to the new name "community", and it doesn't change. I'm stumped! Someone please help?
I figured out what I did wrong. From the get go, you are already supposed to determine the www.yoursite.com/thesitename when you first install elgg. After it is installed, you can't change the sitename. Otherwise, it will mess things up. I had to uninstall, and reinstall to solve this issue. Glad I'm just starting out.
Yes, wherever you point the domain name you need to have Elgg installed in that location. This is ultimately a server config + inexperience issue. Glad you figured it out.
For future reference you do not need to reinstall, it is possible to move it by making that change and then moving the code base to the new desired location on the server.