Problems with AutoActivate

New Member Joined: Sep 12, 2005 Posts: 3

I've just recently started tinkering with Nuke and love it so far. This is only my second time with installing the portal myself and I seem to have gotten it up and running correctly. But now I'm running into an issue with the automatic emailer sending out the emails to activate accounts; they just don't get sent. I don't believe the hosting I'm using, which is Yahoo for this install, allows webmail and I don't know how or where to configure the settings for Nuke to change to smtp if needed.

So I decided to do a search and found the Autoactivate module here from the NukeCops website, downloaded and installed it, after changing the appropriate information (changing value $autoActivate to TRUE) I uploaded the index.php that came in the zip file and I get "You can't access this file directly..." If I replace the new index.php with my original everything loads up just fine.

Thats about all the issues I'm having. Some more details that may be useful: I can't upload the .htaccess files due to Yahoo's file naming restrictions. Yahoo also will install phpnuke 6.5 automatically but does so without the .htaccess files, which is where I got the idea to try going ahead without them.

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:57 pm

First, you will find your SMTP Mail setting in the Forums module administration. See Preferences on that screen.

As for the index file, without seeing it, or knowing where it belongs, it's hard to say.

Most of these things don't include any index files, but are rather hacks that show you what you need to change in your existing Your_Account module.

Raven has an autoactivation hack here as well. In his, you simply change one section of "Function" code in your Your_Account Module's index.php to the code that is included.

You can find that hack at: http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=ns_getit&cid=6&lid=58&type=url#get

Hope this helps.
Steph

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:24 am

Thanks for the info. I was trying to replace the index.php in the main nuke folder, didn't even notice it said "modules/your_account." But the autoactivation module includes an index.php file to replace the existing file in the your_account module. Beyond that, I have no idea how its supposed to work, it still requires email conformation after registering a new account.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

You only replace the functions in the index file with those in the index file I supply. Also, what version of nuke are you using?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:45 am

I'm using 7.5.

I downloaded the mod that Steph pointed me to and I probably didn't install it correctly, its still requiring email activation. Should it be saying something different when I register a new user?

Also, how can I delete these users-in-waiting?

Thanks again.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:28 am

Have you tried changing the preferences in your Forums/Preferences screen to use SMTP email for activating them?

Steph

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:38 am

possum wrote:

I'm using 7.5.

I downloaded the mod that Steph pointed me to and I probably didn't install it correctly, its still requiring email activation. Should it be saying something different when I register a new user?

Also, how can I delete these users-in-waiting?

Thanks again.

You have to change the verbiage yourself in your language files. You can use phpMydmin and delete the records from the users_temp table, or d/l and install my Resend Email mod. It allows you complete access/control to the users/temp table and those in waiting.