Welcome to Elgg.

Elgg couldn't find its settings file. Most of Elgg's settings will be handled for you, but we need you to supply your database details. To do this:

1. Rename engine/settings.example.php to settings.php in your Elgg installation.

2. Open it with a text editor and enter your MySQL database details. If you don't know these, ask your system administrator or technical support for help.

Alternatively, you can enter your database settings below and we will try and do this for you...

Enter your database settings below and hit save:

Elgg requires a file called .htaccess to be set in the root directory of its installation. We tried to create it for you, but Elgg doesn't have permission to write to that directory.

Creating this is easy. Copy the contents of the textbox below into a text editor and save it as .htaccess

# Elgg htaccess directives
# Copyright Curverider Ltd 2008-2009
# License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html GNU Public License version 2
# Link http://elgg.org/

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # ugly ugly hack to detect missing mod_rewrite
    # RedirectMatch must be to an absolute destination, so forces 500 error...
    ErrorDocument 500 "Elgg error: Apache does not have mod_rewrite loaded. Please check your Apache setup."
    RedirectMatch 302 .* index.php
</IfModule>

<Files "htaccess_dist">
    order allow,deny
    deny from all
</Files>

# Don't listing directory
Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Default handler
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Turn on expiry
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
	ExpiresActive On
	ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 years"
</IfModule>

# php 4, apache 1.x
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
    ErrorDocument 500 "Elgg error: Elgg does not support PHP 4."
    RedirectMatch 302 .* index.php
</IfModule>

# php 4, apache 2
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
    ErrorDocument 500 "Elgg error: Elgg does not support PHP 4."
    RedirectMatch 302 .* index.php
</IfModule>

# php 5, apache 1 and 2
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
	# default memory limit to 64Mb
	php_value memory_limit 64M
	# to make sure register global is off
	php_value register_globals 0
	# max post size to 8Mb
	php_value post_max_size 8388608
	# upload size limit to 5Mb	
	php_value upload_max_filesize 5242880
	# hide errors, enable only if debug enabled
	php_value display_errors 0
</IfModule>

# Turn on mod_gzip if available
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
	mod_gzip_on yes
    mod_gzip_dechunk yes
    mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
    mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 1000
    mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 1000000
    mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 1000000
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.* 
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/javascript$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript$
    # Exclude old browsers and images since IE has trouble with this
    mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-Agent: .*Mozilla/4\..*\["
    mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
</IfModule>

## Apache2 deflate support if available
##
## Important note: mod_headers is required for correct functioning across proxies.
##
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.[0678] no-gzip
	BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip

<IfModule mod_headers.c>	
	Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>	
	
	# The following is to disable compression for actions. The reason being is that these
	# may offer direct downloads which (since the initial request comes in as text/html and headers
	# get changed in the script) get double compressed and become unusable when downloaded by IE.
	SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI action\/* no-gzip dont-vary
	SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI actions\/* no-gzip dont-vary
	
</IfModule>

# Configure ETags
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|mp3|flv|mov|avi|3pg|html|htm|swf)$">
	FileETag MTime Size
</FilesMatch>

RewriteEngine on

# If Elgg is in a subdirectory on your site, you might need to add a RewriteBase line
# containing the path from your site root to elgg's root. e.g. If your site is
# http://example.com/ and Elgg is in http://example.com/sites/elgg/, you might need 
#
#RewriteBase /sites/elgg/
#
# here, only without the # in front.
#
# If you're not running Elgg in a subdirectory on your site, but still getting lots
# of 404 errors beyond the front page, you could instead try:
#
#RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^action\/([A-Za-z0-9\_\-\/]+)$ engine/handlers/action_handler.php?action=$1

RewriteRule ^export\/([A-Za-z]+)\/([0-9]+)$ services/export/handler.php?view=$1&guid=$2
RewriteRule ^export\/([A-Za-z]+)\/([0-9]+)\/$ services/export/handler.php?view=$1&guid=$2
RewriteRule ^export\/([A-Za-z]+)\/([0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z]+)\/([A-Za-z0-9\_]+)\/$ services/export/handler.php?view=$1&guid=$2&type=$3&idname=$4

RewriteRule ^\_css\/css\.css$ _css/css.php

RewriteRule ^pg\/([A-Za-z0-9\_\-]+)\/(.*)$ engine/handlers/pagehandler.php?handler=$1&page=$2
RewriteRule ^pg\/([A-Za-z0-9\_\-]+)$ engine/handlers/pagehandler.php?handler=$1

RewriteRule xml-rpc.php engine/handlers/xml-rpc_handler.php
RewriteRule mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi engine/handlers/xml-rpc_handler.php

RewriteRule ^tag/(.+)/?$ engine/handlers/pagehandler.php?handler=search&page=$1

</IfModule>

Once you've corrected any configuration issues, press reload to try again.

Database user
Database password
Elgg database
Database hostname (usually 'localhost')
Database table prefix (usually 'elgg')