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changing the name of wp-signup.php (7 posts)

  1. roguestar
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    my MU is almost finish and it wont be long before i open the doors so to speak but one thing thats bothering me is automatic spam signups and after reading the forums on here, there doesnt really seem to be a perfect solution to this so i've decided to rename wp-sign-up.php and add a capcha and hope this this will catch most spam signup bots.
    Anyway my question is, does anyone have a list of all the files i need to seach for references to wp-signup?

  2. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Just that one, and inside that file do a search for calls to itself. There's maybe half a dozen.

    FWIW, if you do the renaming you won't need the captcha.

  3. roguestar
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    cheers :)
    in the thread http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8152 lunabyte mentions that wp-signup.php is mentioned in another file but doesnt name it. would this matter?

  4. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Depends.

    If a blog isn't found, the method above shown a white screen.

    If you change where the "blog not found" goes, then you can get around that.

    (I didn't worry about it for now.)

  5. roguestar
    Member
    Posted 15 years ago #

    i see, i think. so i'd only get a white page using the method on that thread but just changing the links on the sign-up.php works just as well? (all i'll be doing is renaming the sign-up.php not adding any fancy code)

  6. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 15 years ago #

    Yes, just changing the links in wp-signup will work fine. it only gives a WSOD if someone looks for a blog whcih doesn't exist. That triggers the system to look for the *default* signup page, which we've removed/replaced/added a die to the top of.

    And that should do it for ya.

  7. shyuan
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    i found wp-signup in wp-login.php.. i have changed it also.. it's working fine too.. ;-)

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