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Chat => Entertainment & Technology => Topic started by: Dunny87 on February 25, 2008, 07:04:21 AM

Title: Phpbb disable account creation
Post by: Dunny87 on February 25, 2008, 07:04:21 AM
Ok well due to my forums being spammed by porn/virus spammers, I want to disable the account creation so that an admin has to make the account,
Tell them to send a request for an acc via email or whatever.

Anyways  I had a bit of a look and the only thing I could find was


Change this line on "language/lang_english/lang_main.php":
Code:
$lang[Register] = Register;


to this:
Code:
$lang[Register] = Register;

And basically I'm just asking here as im not to good with php and don't really want to edit this code and mess my forums up, soo I thought id ask if any of you know a better way ? or if this should work ?


Thanks in advance

Title: Re:Phpbb disable account creation
Post by: cornet on February 26, 2008, 22:21:45 PM
Um have you got that the right way round ?

If its bots then your best thing to do (if you can) is more the register.html file completely (or at least move it out of the web root)

bots wont follow links, they will work out what software youre using and send the request directly.