Administration Manual

Contents 1 Elgg Administrator's Manual 1.1 Installing Extensions 1.2 Managing Your Server and Database 1.3 Managing Your Website 1.4 Managing Users 1.5 Managing Content 1.6 Security Guide 1.7 Debugging a Site 1.8 Development

Elgg Administrator's Manual

This is mostly a skeleton at this point. Anyone interested in helping to build out an Administration Manual, please join the Elgg Documentation group. Right now we are assembling an outline of what to include in such a manual.

Installing Extensions

• Installing and configuring plugins
• Installing a theme
• Installing a language pack

Managing Your Server and Database

• Configuring Cron
• Log rotation
• Garbage collection

Managing Your Website

• Taking your site temporarily offline
• Making your site search engine friendly
• Entering search engine meta-data
• Moving your site

Managing Users

• Setting user registration policy
• Adding a new user
• Resetting a user password
• Dealing with a problem user

Managing Content

• Dashboard
• Tools
• Settings
• Administration

Security Guide

Debugging a Site

Development

• Finding a developer