In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Elgg on a CentOS 7 Cloud VPS.
Elgg is an open source social networking software that provides a robust framework that allows you to build all kinds of social environments. Whether it’s a campus-wide social network for your university, school or college, or an internal collaborative platform for your organization, Elgg is able to handle these cases with ease.
Elgg also offers many additional features, including blogging, micro-blogging, networking, groups, and much more. Let’s start installing Elgg.
Anaconda Python is an open-source programming language based on a Python distribution that is specifically developed for scientific computing and large amounts of data processing. The Anaconda library has over 200 packages ready out-of-the-box and over 2000 downloadable packages, all of which enable developers and enthusiasts to better develop their data science related applications almost instantly. Also, Anaconda package ships with Conda, a command-line tool and the package manager for Anaconda, which provides management of libraries, dependencies, and different environments.
Redis is an in-memory data structure store primarily used as a database and cache. Redis supports different kinds of abstract data structures such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, hyper logs, bitmaps, and spatial indexes. The Redis package that is included in the default CentOS repositories is pretty outdated, so installing from the source code will ensure that we have the latest version of Redis installed on our system. Let’s begin with the installation.
