By grammaat46 on

At the first login (superuser) I put the username and email address where required and press "Create New Account". I get an immediate error message "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded". Other usernames and other email's fail as well. Can someone help please?

gm

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grammaat46’s picture

grammaat46 commented

It's occurred to me that the URL in the error message is not the email address but rather the page I'm being piped to. http://www.myhost.com/drupal/?q=user/register is the action for "Create New Account" but I know too little of PHP to know which file (which URL) this is calling.

gm

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ax commented

is actually http://www.myhost.com/drupal/index.php?q=user/register . if this url does work, you have a problem with your apache configuration; specifically, DirectoryIndex index.php from .htaccess doesn't seem to get applied. make sure it gets honored by having AllowOverride All (or AllowOverride Indexes Options) in effect for your drupal dir (in your httpd.conf) or add index.php to the DirectoryIndex in your httpd.conf.

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grammaat46 commented

Thanks ax this does seem to be the problem. The group that hosts my website is probably the only one that has access to my httpd.conf file, as I don't see it.

This is my second site at this webhost though and the first ran without a problem. After hacking on it for several weeks, it finally bit the dust and I'm now reinstalling a clean copy in a preferred directory. The first site had the URL http://hostname.com/drupal/?q=user/register while the second one was http://drupal.hostname.com//?q=user/register. When I moved the drupal directory into a subdomain, the URL picks up another " / ".

If the hosting company is unwilling to work with me, I may need to move it back to a subdirectory and deal with it.

gm

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jhowe commented

I fixed this by removing the trailing slash at /sites/default/settings.php , under the $base_url variable.

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pricechild commented

Yup... that latest worked for me too jhowe! :D

love you all, pricey

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Sergio Beristain commented

Such a simple solution to what took some brainstorming to solve. I had this mainlywhen using multisite.
Now we know:
WRONG $base_url = "http://subdomain.myadomain.com/";
RIGHT $base_url = "http://subdomain.myadomain.com";

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

i am testing a drupal 4.7.0 installation on a free hosting site http://byethost.com although the installation has been successful, i am not able to create the admin account. it happens something like this : -
1. i click on the link to "create the first account" that appears in the welcome message of a successful drupal installation.
2. it takes me to the 'register' page, wherein i fill in the desired username (admin) and the email id to which the password n all will be mailed.
3. after filling up i click on "Create New Account" button.
4. The same form loads again with a message on top prompting to enter a username and an email id...which i already have done. and it doesn't seem to budge from there.

hope the version is not too old and i might not be overdoing the expectations bit too much...
last query of mine was related to an old version so no one bothered to answer...not really caring that it's a PITA to upload a full package software over slow dial-up and it's not fun or timepass for some people to juggle with distros and CMS packages.

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heine commented

This bug has been fixed in 4.7.1. Upgrade to / Use 4.7.2 as the previous versions have vulnerabilites (see http://drupal.org/security).
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