[CLOSED] Can't log in or sign up

[nikosprodro]

Issue by ageis
Sat Aug 22 00:28:07 2015
Originally opened as dropbox/hackpad#7

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I've set up the open-sourced Hackpad on Debian Linux 8.1, using Sun Java 7 JDK 7u79, Scala 2.11.7, etc. I got it to successfully run and serve requests. I followed INSTALL.md as closely as possible.

However, signup and login does not work. The /ep/account/login-or-signup URL that the signup form directs you to is 404 not found.

Also there was no superuser account created. INSTALL.md says to get the validation token from the email_signup table, but that table contains no rows for me. etherpad.superUserEmailAddresses was properly filled out in etherpad.local.properties.

[nikosprodro]

Comment by zomux
Tue Aug 25 05:44:10 2015

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+1

[nikosprodro]

Comment by flagrama
Wed Aug 26 13:47:52 2015

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The login form is at /ep/account/signup-or-login. Don't know why it would redirect you otherwise. I've only just tried getting it working myself and had no issue.

You have to sign up a user with the superuser email address, a super user is not created automatically and the email_signup table will have an entry added at that time.

If you are watching the console you ran bin/run.sh from you can get the token from the email sent instead since the html for the email is displayed in there (on Mac at least). Just be sure to change any & to just &

[nikosprodro]

Comment by BlueT
Tue Oct 27 01:26:29 2015

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The official hackpad.com has similar problem.
Usually it shows mostly noting in the page, and you cannot login.

The automatically redirected page:

The /ep/account/login-or-signup page: