We are now going to walk through the steps of registering as a new member. This experience will be invaluable later as we change our membership preferences to suit our own needs.
1. Go to
http://localhost
orhttp://www.example.com
as appropriate. If already logged in, select Logout from the menu. Then select Register.2. We are presented with a standard Member Registration screen, complete with a generic Terms of Service. Fill in the screen with settings different than the administrator login that we have been using up to this point. Check the box to agree to the terms of service.
Note
There can only be one username per email address. This means we cannot use the same email address for this member as we did for our administrator member. At this stage, we also cannot register with a fake email address, because the default configuration requires membership to be activated by clicking on a link in an email.
3. Click Submit, and as long as there were no errors with...