By tdellaringa on

Hi folks,

Our site doesn't allow comments or registration of users. However, I get a fair amount of people somehow finding comment links it seems (according to logs) and getting 404s, and actually registering for the site. I don't know how they could do that other than being a drupal user themselves and going to /user and creating an account - we don't link to that page anywhere.

Of course we need that page to login as admin. Is there anyway to avoid allowing new registrations? I wonder if that wouldn't solve both problems. Maybe people who register find comment links, but we don't allow comments...

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Rowanw commented

To disable comments, go to Admin > Modules > Comment = Disable. If you enable the Statistics module you should be able to see where the 404s are coming from, in fact it may tell you in the recent log entries.

To disable user registration, go to Admin > User management > User settings > Select the first radio button

tdellaringa’s picture

tdellaringa commented

Thank you, that is exactly what I wanted. I just in fact added the statistics module as well, so that will help. Thanks again!