registering users?

juliekate · Post by **juliekate** » Sun May 05, 2002 6:46 pm

Hi all,

I got the board up and running but it won't register new users, it simply returns you to the main board without an error. I think my permissions are ok. I went through the general config in the admin panel and the only thing I can see that's relevant is the "enable account activation."

It doesn't work with it on USER or NONE.

Any thoughts?

Thank you,
juliekate

(PS - If I want to change my admin username, do I have to reinstall the board? I enabled username changes but again it's the same result as above.)

Kail · Post by **Kail** » Sun May 05, 2002 8:54 pm

Could a mod please move this to the support forum?

juliekate · Post by **juliekate** » Sun May 05, 2002 10:29 pm

I'm sorry! I thought I was in the support forum.

My apologies...

jk

juliekate · Post by **juliekate** » Mon May 06, 2002 1:32 am

I wonder if someone could at least give me a direction to go in...have you ever heard of this problem?

thanks,
juliekate

Kail · Post by **Kail** » Mon May 06, 2002 9:28 am

Is this a fresh install? Is it phpBB 2.0.0 or is it any of the RC versions?

juliekate · Post by **juliekate** » Mon May 06, 2002 12:23 pm

Fresh install...let me ask something. if I had the wrong permissions on my directory, when someone tried to login, wouldn't they get a critical error about not being able to update the user's table? I'm not getting this error. I'm presuming that's not the issue...

zoid · Post by **zoid** » Mon May 06, 2002 12:26 pm

Too strict permissions on the directory do not affect the database.

Alexander

Braddock · Post by **Braddock** » Mon May 06, 2002 3:36 pm

I have the exact same problem and did post on this subject but I think I'm close to finding the problem. I did exactly what you did installed a fresh version of phpBB v2. I was able to add my admins etc. Then I downloaded and installed a new theme. After I installed the new theme my users were unable to register. So I went back to the default them and everything worked fine.

The theme I used was "phpVB2". I'm pretty sure the problem is within this theme, possibly missing file or something. I'm in the process of trying to track it down.

If anyone else knows how to fix this problem or could provide some insight into it I would appreciate it.

heretic · Post by **heretic** » Mon May 06, 2002 3:55 pm

This may sound trivial, but did you try to activate the new account?

juliekate · Post by **juliekate** » Mon May 06, 2002 4:37 pm

That might make sense, since I'm using DarkEQ as my theme.

I wish I could test it today but my stupid firewall won't lemme thru my shell account to delete the php_auth_access tables that are keeping me from reinstalling.

AL · Post by AL » Mon May 06, 2002 6:56 pm

if you have installed a different theme, and are having problems of any kind, the best thing to do is override the default style back to subSilver and see if the problem still exists. if the problem goes away it's something with the template, and you need to ask in the styles forum for the fix.

good luck!

juliekate · Post by **juliekate** » Tue May 07, 2002 2:44 am

update:

I dropped the tables! I reinstalled! I recreated the forum successfully! I could register a new user with subSilver!

I switched to DarkEQ as default (and chose "override") and could not register.

I switched back to subSilver and still can't register.

I can't believe I may have to go through all that crud again and stick with subSilver (not that it's not nice, but DarkEQ is perfect for my site!!)

Any developers wanna take a whack at this?

AL · Post by AL » Tue May 07, 2002 4:17 am

ok... so with subsilver you can't register...

do you have debug mode enabled as discussed previously? if so please give the entire error message you get when you try and register (should give you the query that failed)

juliekate · Post by **juliekate** » Wed May 08, 2002 2:07 am

I enabled debug mode and I'm not getting an error, it just returns me to login and claims I never registered. I'm using a unique valid email. Is there somewhere specific I need to look for the command that is not making it through?

juliekate · Post by **juliekate** » Wed May 08, 2002 2:52 am

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.ph ... 364#102364

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