Question

When registering a new user the new users page shows only:

_No permission to read topic NewUserTemplate - perhaps you need to log in?_

Oddly on the same server the main installation of TWiki (first url) Registration doesn't work but on the test installation I set up it works fine. The only real differences are:

1. that the first installation was migrated to the latest production TWiki and second was unpacked from the tarball
2. the first install has ScriptAlias? and Alias ...

• Not working https://wiki.hip.fi/twiki/bin/viewauth/Main/ZebraaaaaTestttttttttt
• Working https://wiki.hip.fi/~gindonis/twiki/bin/view/Main/ZebraaaaTestt

• This problem occurs with and without mod_perl.

• This problem is also mentioned in SmartSessionPluginDev
• searching this error message on Google shows that some other sites have had the same problem.

Environment

-- MichaelGindonis - 12 May 2005

Answer

Don't know if this will help but on the Not working installation the TWiki web where the New User Template is stored has had the ALLOWTOPICVIEW set to only allow the TWiki Guest to view the web (other than admin rights autumatically assigned to members of the TWiki Admin Group). This would result in the error message you are receiving. Perhaps you could remove that permission and see if that makes a difference. You'll see in the gindonis web where you have got it working that there isn't a view access control set at all.

-- SueLocke - 22 May 2005

Thanks for the Answer, this solved my problem. I was almost sure I had tried this... I had tried too many things when trying to fix this.

-- MichaelGindonis - 25 May 2005