Thanks for your input, Massimo. It's got to be it. If I deliberately change the smtp info on my local server to be incorrect, the app behaves the same as on the remote server.
I've tried to send an email from the python shell at the remote server via ssh and it worked fine. What can I do to investigate the issue further? Thanks. On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:08 PM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the problem is that there is a failure to send the > confirmation email. It is either the remote server not accepting the > smtp connection or, if you are using a third party smtp server, cold > be a firewall issue. > > Massimo > > On Apr 25, 11:52 pm, Alexei Vinidiktov <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Alexei Vinidiktov >> >> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Alexei Vinidiktov >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Alexei Vinidiktov >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >> >> >>> I'm beginning to learn user authentication. I've implemented a very >> >>> basic authentication using the Auth module that works fine on my local >> >>> machine: I can register a user, a confirmation email is sent out, the >> >>> user can confirm his email, login and logout. >> >> >>> I copied the app to a remote server and tried to register a user, but >> >>> after I entered all the user information and hit Submit I got >> >>> redirected back to the registration page and no email was sent to the >> >>> user being registered, no ticket was generated either. >> >> >>> I'd appreciate any clues. >> >> >>> I'm using web2py 1.59. My local machine is a WinXP box, the remote >> >>> server is on a Linux distro. >> >> >> Additional info: >> >> >> After my unsuccessful attempt to register I was redirected to the same >> >> registration page (which is just a scaffold provided by web2py) and >> >> then I looked at the session info by clicking on the corresponding >> >> button and it said "auth : None, flash : Invalid email", but no flash >> >> was shown to the user (i.e. to me). I tried different email, but >> >> always got the same flash : invalid email in the session info. >> >> > I've updated my web2py installation on the remote server to the latest >> > version, but it didn't help. >> >> > Do you have any guesses at all as to what may be happening? >> >> Another piece of information. >> >> Logging in and logging out both do seem to work on the remote server, >> only registration of new users doesn't work. >> >> -- >> Alexei Vinidiktov > > > -- Alexei Vinidiktov --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
