Hi.
For future reference, if anyone is interested, I was able to fix the issue of
the registration page for unregistered users not using the configuration set in
the registration administration pane.
In short, I was looking in the right direction when looking at permission
issues. Simple (once you know where to look): Unregistered users must have view
permission on page XWiki.RegistrationConfig.
It took me a very long time to find the issue, and only after looking at the
actual source behind XWiki.Registration. Since there was no documentation on
this and since XWiki.RegistrationConfig is an unlisted page, I can’t imagine
that administrators are supposed to find that page and change rights to use
this feature. Could it be a bug? Did no one else encounter this issue?
Cheers,
Gilles.
> On 19 Apr 2017, at 20:08, Gilles Dubochet <gilles.duboc...@ideasbelong.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> This is my first post. Just starting with XWiki, and pretty excited about
> everything it can do.
>
> I’m trying to configure the registration text (what unregistered users see
> when they create a new account on page XWikiRegister). I changed what I want
> in Administration:Registration (page heading and welcome message), as
> described in the XWiki help.
>
> However, when an unregistered user goes to the registration page, they will
> not see my custom message, but a default message above the registration form
> (note absence of styling):
>> Registration
>> Sign up here so you can edit pages and participate in the wiki.
>>
>
> But… when I navigate to the registration page while logged in with my
> administrator account, I get the page with my customised page heading and
> welcome message. By navigate, I mean copy the link
> ".../xwiki/bin/register/XWiki/XWikiRegister" into my address bar.
>
> And… when I navigate to the same page while logged in with a
> non-administrator account, I get an error ("You are not allowed to view this
> page or perform this action.”). Which is OK, I guess.
>
> Can anyone point me towards what might be going on? My best guess is that it
> is a rights problem (I’ve been fighting with those). But I have no idea where
> to look.
>
> My XWiki version is a hosted enterprise 8.4.4.
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
>
> Cheers,
> Gilles
