Question

I'm new to TWiki and just completed an installation. I registered my First user (me) and received the verification code email. When I follow the link in the email or paste the verification in the web page I get the following error:

Wiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver logs for more information.

Bad activation code UserName.1234567890

I also find the message :

| 12 May 2006 - 12:23 | Bad activation code UserName.1234567890 at /twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 1174.

In the warnyyyymmdd.txt file in the TWiki directory.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Environment

-- JamesShelly - 12 May 2006

Answer

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I don't think I have a complete answer for you but I was trying to solve some problems with registration (see AllowRegistrationOnRestrictedSite) and ran into the problem you observed. I suspect that it occurs because the TWikiRegistrationAgent gets tripped up during the registration process but apparently deletes the associated file in data/RegistrationApprovals too early in the process. Here's a couple of suggestions:

1. Make sure the TWikiRegistrationAgent as view privileges for TWiki.NewUserTemplate.
2. Watch the file that gets created in data/RegistrationApprovals when you first submit a registration and then what happens when you do the confirmation step.

Hope this helps!

-- LynnwoodBrown - 13 May 2006

4.0.3 is about to be released and has some improvements in registration process. If this is reproducible in this version, it should be reported in our bug tracker (Bugs:WebHome).

-- SteffenPoulsen - 16 Jun 2006