Question

When a new user registers at my sample Wiki site, the registration process seems all successful, that is, the user can receive an email requiring confirmation. I notice that under the RegistrationApprovals directory, a temporary file containing user's information has been created. However when the user clicks the confirmation link, it seems that nothing happens, that is, user's information has not been stored in TWiki. I notice that the temporary file under the RegistrationApprovals directory has been removed. However in the .htpasswd file, no new record has been added for that user, which is the reason why the user cannot log in. In addition, under the twiki/data/Main directory, no user files have been created, usually, there will be something like JohnDoe.txt, JohnDoe.txt,v etc. The web host is apache 2.0 and it's able to read/write those directories. Anyway, it is so weird since it worked before.

You can try at the following link: http://digamma/twiki/

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-- JianOuyang - 06 Mar 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

You are using an alpha release? That's supicious. Try upgrading to TWikiRelease04x00x01.

Are you sure the htpasswd file exists and is writable by the Apache user? That is the usual reason for this symptom.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 12 Mar 2006

Hey I had a problem similar to this. Have you changed permissions on anything recently? Make sure that your registration agent has write access to everything it needs to. I locked the main page, so people couldn't edit it and the registration agent then would register people.

-- RodWilson - 16 Mar 2006