Cannot create first user (Administrator user)

Posted by siker on June 23, 2003 at 1:14pm

Hi all,

I've finally install Drupal and all the needed system requirements.

Pointed my browser to the server I install Drupal on:

http://172.168.1.1/drupal/index.php

I click on the "Create new account" and it takes me to a Forbidden page (403) because of "-Indexes" option in my httpd.conf file.

The access_log file shows the following entry:

172.168.1.1 - - [23/Jun/2003:10:00:41 +1000] "GET /drupal/ q=user/register HTTP/1.0" 403 283

What am I doing wrong here ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Comments

I 've located it the user.mod

Posted by siker on June 23, 2003 at 2:15pm

I 've located it the user.module file

here we go:

$form .= form_submit(t("Log in"));

$output .= form($form, "post", url("user/login"));

$output .= "\n";

if (variable_get("user_register", 1)) {
$items[] = l(t("Create new account"), "user/register", array("title" => t("Create a new user account.")));
}

Is there anything wrong with this code or am I doing something wrong ?

Please help

Apache problem

Posted by Dries on June 23, 2003 at 10:12pm

I suspect this is a Apache (configuration) problem; what version of Apache are you using?

Apache 1.3.27 Nothing wron

Posted by siker on June 24, 2003 at 3:20am

Apache 1.3.27

Nothing wrong with httpd.conf

openbsd 3.3

I used drupal 4.1.0 and it worked fine. I'm not going to even bother with 4.2.1 as it wasted alot of my time.

Later

DirectoryIndex index.php

Posted by ax on June 24, 2003 at 4:17am

apparently, you don't have a "DirectoryIndex index.php" in your httpd.conf / drupal .htaccess. So "GET /drupal/?q=user/register" doesn't know that this request should be handled by index.php. does it work if you add that?

Very helpful

Posted by NeoNizer on November 19, 2004 at 4:48pm

Thanks! I just started on drupal with big hopes and this got me bumped,
being redirected to my dir index.... was kinda annoying...
this has already helped me out i think :)