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Topic: error on registration

Posted By: E:magine
Subject: error on registration
Date Posted: 23 February 2011 at 2:25pm

Hi,

we run a website PWCFoums .co.uk

we recently moved servers and upgraded with a fresh install V9.6 -> v9.7

but it seems anyone trying to register with any name at all gets error:

The Username you requested is already taken, not permitted, or is less than 2 characters long.
Please choose another Username.

we have tried looking at the pages and regenerated the page from zip but seems odd any ideas?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 February 2011 at 3:10pm

Often strange errors like this are caused by corrupted files during FTP. Try re-uploading the orginal files again and see if that solves the issue.

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Posted By: E:magine
Date Posted: 23 February 2011 at 9:10pm

hi,

we have 2 Websites running WWF, on the server website 1 wont register users but everything else seems to be working.

Website 2, works fine and no issues. i have tried copying the files from Website 2 over website one and still same issues, making sure i delete the certain files and settings etc that need re instating.

all it does is come up with that error.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 24 February 2011 at 10:29am

The bad word filter was updated last summer to allow Regular Expressions. Looking at your forum I think that it maybe one of your words in the bad word filter is causing the forum to reject the username.

A * is a wild card character in regular expressions, so replace the word * then it would catch all words as being a bad word in the filter. You can escape this using \ so you could change this to \*

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Posted By: E:magine
Date Posted: 24 February 2011 at 11:56am

thanx bruce,

jack decided to edit the word filter lol. done the edit and all working now . cheers