New subject: [xwiki-users] new wiki, no users

25 Sep 2005

I performed a raw install: installed xwiki version 0.9.840 fresh on a Fedora Core Linux
box with mySQL 4.0.26 and Tomcat 5.02.  After I finally figured out how to install mySQL
everything went smoothly.  My wiki is up and running, and I started using it and building
pages.

But I noticed that everything I was doing is as the user: XWikiGuest.  I want to create
user accounts, and disable editing for anonymous guests.  So, I click on
"register" it takes me to a completely blank page.  Just exactly like the blank
pages you have when you've got a page and haven't put anything on it yet.  So, I
click on "edit this page" and it looks exactly like I'm editing a normal
page - in fact it lets me edit the page.  But no way to register new users.

So, I go to the user's page:  xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/XWikiUsers and it is completely
blank too.  Exactly like the above, I can edit it and do what I want on it, but no user
stuff.  So, I go back to my main page and click on "log in" and I try out the
Admin password that is advertised on the support site user: "Admin" password:
"admin" - and no dice.  It grinds away for 1 split second and gives me back my
log-in screen with the words I just typed in missing.  No errors, nothing about bad
passwords, nothing.

I looked all over the documentation and couldn't find anything helpful.

Ever seen this problem before?  Is there something somewhere on the documentation site
that I could paste into those two pages, using "edit page" to make them work?

Thanks
Kevin Miller