Conflict:Registration is Disabled and Enabled

Hello,

When some users visit our site they receive a message that registration is disabled.

I was able to reproduce this error in Firefox by typing in OurDomain.com and then hitting CTRL+ENTER.

This page loads:

http://www.OurDomain.com/wp-signup.php?new=OurDomain.com

…and if I just load:

http://www.OurDomain.com/wp-signup.php

I get the same message.

On the WordPress Network Settings page:

https://www.OurDomain.com/wp-admin/network/settings.php

…it indicates that Registration is disabled.

If I set it to “User accounts may be registered,” and save it, the page saves and Registration remains disabled.

https://www.OurDomain.com/wp-admin/network/settings.php?updated=true

On this page it says:

“If registration is disabled, please set NOBLOGREDIRECT in wp-config.php to a URL you will redirect visitors to if they visit a non-existent site.”

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We use s2Member to manage user registrations and on the s2Member® Multisite (Configuration) page:

https://www.OurDomain.com/wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=ws-plugin–s2member-mms-ops

The setting:

“Your Main Site / Allow Open Registration? (via wp-login.php?action=register)”

…is set to “Yes (allow Open Registration; Free Subscribers at Level #0)”

So s2Member thinks open registration is allowed but WordPress Network Settings does not (and will not).

And:

https://www.OurDomain.com/wp-login.php?action=register

Is in fact a valid registration page (although in a horribly skinny login form width), and that:

http://www.OurDomain.com/wp-signup.php

…is not a valid registration page.

– – –

It seems that if I will follow the above instructions “…set NOBLOGREDIRECT in wp-config.php to a URL you will redirect visitors to…” such that anyone will be redirected to the home page automatically, or if I create a redirect rule in our (WP Engine web hosting provider) user settings for:

http://www.OurDomain.com/wp-signup.php

…so that it will redirect to either the home page then this will mask the issue.

But I don’t want to mask the issue I want to solve the apparent conflict where this page appears for any reason when open registration is enabled in s2Member but cannot be changed in WordPress Network Settings.

What do I do?

Thank you,

Chris

Hi Chris.

Could you submit the site’s info so I take a look at what you have? s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Thanks. :)

Hey Cristian,

It turns out that this means registration is disabled for sub sites.

But end users would never know that.

I went with something suggested by Jason.

I added a redirects.php file to the mu-plugins folder:

<?php
add_action('init', 'my_redirects');
function my_redirects()
{
if(strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/wp-signup.php') !== FALSE)
wp_redirect('/index.php').exit();
}

So anytime anyone accidentally or otherwise gets to the wp-signup.php page they're sent to the site's home page.

Thank you for the help.

Chris

That’s great. Thanks for the update! I’m glad you sorted it out. :)