Aha! As the site is intended to be in Spanish I did create a new user group, called "Visitantes" and made it the default user group for unregistered users. This is because I didn't necessarily want to have to exclude people from holding admin accounts in the future because they don't know English well enough to navigate an English-language admin interface. I have set the "site control" anon_user_group back to 'Anonymous', and the new user page now displays new_user_html when visited by an unregisterad user. However, filling out the account creation form still results in '500 Internal Server Error'... Now, the description of the anon_user_group says simply "The group which the standard anonymous user is a part of (most likely, this will be "Anonymous")." I would suggest updating that in the upstream software distribution so that the effect of changing the name of the group is made explicit. Regards, Miguel On 18/02/07, janra at write-on.org <janra at write-on.org> wrote: > I think the first question is, what did you change, in that time? > > Did you change the name of the Anonymous group? That could account > for unregistered users being told they have accounts already; the > code checks to see if you are in that group, as opposed to checking > if you have no UID. (Yes, that's wrong, but it's legacy code.) > > Did you give registered users the make_new_accounts permission (in > the groups admin tool)? That could account for registered users being > permitted to create new accounts. > > janra > > > On 18-Feb-07, at 7:22 AM, Miguel Carrion Alvarez wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > We're setting up a new scoop site. After creating half a dozen > > users, something has gone wrong with the new user interface, making > > impossible to create new users. > > > > The page http://es.eurotrib.eu/newuser displays the new_user_html > > block when the user IS logged in, and the > > new_user_has_account block when the user is NOT logged in. > > > > I would appreciate any help diagnosing the problem - I have seen > > that the 'newuser' Op points to a script called new_user. Is there > > anything else that can be done from the web interface, or does this > > require low-level access to the software? > > > > Regards, > > > > Miguel > > _______________________________________________ > > Scoop-help mailing list > > Scoop-help at lists.kuro5hin.org > > http://lists.kuro5hin.org/mailman/listinfo/scoop-help > >