Question Cannot register any users!

sylther wrote:

Thank you for the fast reply.

First, I'm a Joomla newbie, so maybe I'm going about this thing in the wrong way. For that I apologize.

I'm running Joomla 1.5.15 on a local installation (Xampp). Kunena version 1.5.11. Template: default_ex.

I don't have any community components (such as Community Builder) installed. Do I need that? I guess I just figured that Joomla's login form would tie up with the login needed to use the Kunena forum. I have user registration set to yes in the global configurations of Joomla. The only reason for my website to have a login form is in order to use your forum component.

Again, any help is greatly appreciated.

ok you have 3 issues i can see here let me try and explain:

Firstly joomla:

joomla 1.5.15 ----> please upgrade to joomla 1.5.18

Secondly:

Kunena is just a component of joomla and as such uses some on the native joomla functions like login, meaning that although you login to be able to use kunena, its not actual kunena that deals with said login its the native joomla function that does this. What you need to do is post about this on the joomla forum as sozzled told you to do about 2 posts ago, but im almost certain the first thing they will tell you to do is what i did above and that is to upgrade to J1.5.18

Thirdly Xampp: ( im assumming your just testing kunena and not actual trying to running a live site on xampp )

In short:

These types of enviroments are useless for testing/running web applications like kunena and joomla

The longer answer:

WAMP/MAMP/XAMPP/whatever is "all right" (I suppose) if you want to do things quick-and-dirty but, because you have to spend an impossible amount of time tweaking various settings, adding other bits and pieces (to get e-mail working, for instance), you can't test everything. Even if you use your own PC to conduct feasibility testing (i.e. to see if something is possible) you can never use your PC to test a work's viability (i.e. to establish that the product under test will work in an operational environment).

i have found your better of paying £5/$5 a month for a small testbed shell ( hosted site ) rather than use these type of enviroments.

I'll agree on this 1 w Cerberus. Although u can simulate an environment with a virtual system, It's much more faster and cheaper (given the time taken to setup a fully working virtual environment) to simply buy a small amount of server space from a hosting company and run the entire thing 'live' then to kill urself trying to get things going on a home computer where u are never sure if it's the product or just something u still haven't managed/installed/set-up/whatever.

Unless u're a big time developer, which I'll be free to suspect You are not.

To be frank I never ever bothered to set-up a home testbed for anything aside some of my one private experiments - especially not when someone else pays for the entire operation and I still wouldn't if it where my own funding since (as Cerberus so delightfully put it) the hosting space cost only a few pennies.