Now that I am aware of the issue...it is fixed, and you can again create accounts.
HOWEVER infra sees our current captcha (and so do I) as a security risc so I need to change that. Let me sum these events with a glimt in the eye: - 3 weeks waiting until I (by accident) saw it - 1 hour fixing. Have a nice day. Jan On 29 January 2013 23:40, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[email protected]>wrote: > > Rakesh, I am sending this to the dev mailing list, perhaps they can fix > what ails the wiki. > > It is not possible to create new accounts on mwiki. Is this a known > problem, and will it be fixed soon? This has been happening for at least > two days. > > MWHttpRequest::factory: allow_url_fopen needs to be enabled for pure PHP > http requests to work. If possible, curl should be used instead. See > http://php.net/curl. > > Backtrace: > > #0 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**HttpFunctions.php(67): > MWHttpRequest::factory('http:/**/challeng. <http://challeng.>..', Array) > #1 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**HttpFunctions.php(88): > Http::request('GET', 'http://challeng...', Array) > #2 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/**extensions/ConfirmEdit/Asirra.**class.php(50): > Http::get('http://challeng...'**) > #3 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/**extensions/ConfirmEdit/**Captcha.php(514): > Asirra->passCaptcha() > #4 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/**extensions/ConfirmEdit/**ConfirmEditHooks.php(35): > SimpleCaptcha->**confirmUserCreate(Object(User)**, '') > #5 [internal function]: ConfirmEditHooks::**confirmUserCreate(Object(User) > **, '') > #6 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**Hooks.php(216): call_user_func_array('* > *ConfirmEditHook...', Array) > #7 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**GlobalFunctions.php(3823): > Hooks::run('AbortNewAccount', Array) > #8 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(**397): > wfRunHooks('AbortNewAccount', Array) > #9 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(**216): > LoginForm->**addNewAccountInternal() > #10 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**specials/SpecialUserlogin.php(**161): > LoginForm->addNewAccount() > #11 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**SpecialPage.php(611): > LoginForm->execute(NULL) > #12 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**SpecialPageFactory.php(494): > SpecialPage->run(NULL) > #13 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**Wiki.php(290): > SpecialPageFactory::**executePath(Object(Title), > Object(RequestContext)) > #14 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**Wiki.php(537): > MediaWiki->performRequest() > #15 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/includes/**Wiki.php(447): MediaWiki->main() > #16 /x1/mwiki-1.20.2live/index.**php(59): MediaWiki->run() > #17 {main} > > > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: > http://www.pitonyak.org/**AndrewMacro.odt<http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt> > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > >
