www/elgg 6.1.4 DragonFly

Blogging and social networking platform

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv2
Categories: www
Package size: 23269.7 KiB, 134220.2 KiB installed

Description

Elgg is an open-source social networking platform. It offers blogging, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be cataloged by tags as well.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 7.1.0, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

www/elgg

6.1.4 behind since 2026-08-23

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

www/elgg

7.1.0 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-10-01

HardenedBSD

www/elgg

7.0.5 behind since 2026-10-01

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

www/elgg

7.0.5 behind since 2026-10-01

no data

[email protected]

Install

Binary package:

pkg install elgg

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/www/elgg && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["www/elgg"]
  me --> d0["converters/php83-mbstring"]
  me --> d1["databases/php83-pdo_mysql"]
  me --> d2["databases/php83-sqlite3"]
  me --> d3["devel/gettext-runtime"]
  me --> d4["devel/php83-intl"]
  me --> d5["ftp/php83-curl"]
  me --> d6["graphics/php83-gd"]
  me --> d7["lang/php83"]
  me -.-> dmore(["8 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 16

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

1) Make sure your apache's mod_rewrite extension is working,
and change the AllowOverride setting of the DocumentRoot to
    AllowOverride all

2) Create a user and a empty database for Elgg to store all
   its tables in (or choose an existing database).

3) Add the following to your Apache configuration, and
   restart the server:

   Alias /elgg /usr/local/www/elgg/
   <Directory /usr/local/www/elgg>
      AllowOverride all
      Require all granted
   </Directory>

4) Visit your Elgg site with a browser (i.e.,
   http://your.server.com/elgg/).

For more information, see the INSTALL DOCUMENTATION:

   http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Installation
   http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Troubleshooting

Please follow instructions in /usr/local/www/elgg/UPGRADE.txt.