I've figured out why this was broken. The Higher Walls plugin was the problem, it seems. I disabled and deleted the plugin but still seem to have a walled garden. Bonus!

Mine doesnt simply work - its an open site, but the email invites doesnt work.

I've figured out why this was broken. The Higher Walls plugin was the problem, it seems. I disabled and deleted the plugin but still seem to have a walled garden. Bonus!

Mine doesnt simply work - its an open site, but the email invites doesnt work.

1. This is a really old thread

2. Commenting out checks in the installer only delays dealing with the underlying issue.

I am on Ubuntu 13.10 with LAMP stack had the same problem so this is what worked for me

1. Open terminal

2. "cd" to your elgg data folder

3. type " sudo chmod 777 data " (without quotes, "data" is name of my elgg data folder) and push enter

4. Restart apache and that's it.

I am not sure it will work for everyone but after hours of internet search this is what worked out for me.

@Mani Corrected 3rd step is

sudo chown www-data:www-data -R data

sudo chmod -R 755 data