mfreemon wrote:

FWIW, this is what I did as a temporary fix. I'm not sure it's the
best or most elegant solution, but it allows the email confirmation to
complete successfully.

[root@ncassr includes]# diff /root/mediawiki-
1.7.1/includes/Title.php /var/www/mediawiki-1.7.1/includes/Title.php
1153a1154,1158

if (substr_count($name,"Confirmemail") > 0) {
        return true;
}

• Mike

Another solution comes from the site:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access#Preventing_access_to_all_pages_for_non-validated_users

The problem I ran into with MediaWiki v1.7.1 is being unable to confirm my e-mail address when I create a new user. I
can access the login page and create an account, I can access my preferences to update my e-mail address, I click on
Confirm e-mail and receive the e-mail, but when I click the link, I get a "You must log in to view other pages."
message. In order to allow everyone to see the "Special:Confirmemail"
and "Special:Confirmemail/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" to verify the e-mail, you need to add four lines to
include/Title.php: find the function userCanRead() and add just before these lines, which are at the end of the
function)

}
return false;
}
the following four lines:

$names=split("/", $name);
if(strcmp($names[0],"Special:Confirmemail")==0 && count($names)==2 && preg_match('/[a-f0-9]{32}/',$names[1])) {

return true;

}
The final code should look like this:

$names=split("/", $name);
if(strcmp($names[0],"Special:Confirmemail")==0 && count($names)==2 && preg_match('/[a-f0-9]{32}/',$names[1])) {

return true;
}

• Jack

robchur wrote:

Fixed in r23528.