Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
Tossing this one onto (suitable) list, because ... well, why not! :-)
Good idea. I was getting a bad feeling about that discussion being entirely in private mail if only because it's almost impossible to re-find those things when you need them later.
Sorry, but what 'self-' registraiton page? Not sure what this reference is to.
Heck, been so long I forget where the self-registration wiki page even is/was.
Running the 'curl' invocation you suggested revealed that one way to get to that page is https://secure.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start&do=register , page load of which indeed brings up a notice 'Command disabled: register'
In the log you cited, you say:
still need better protection on Register before opening that up again (there are plugins that may be quite helpful, but alas, those plugins don't appear to be packaged for the current Debian stable).
On my way to research and see if that's still true, I stumbled on https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-dokuwiki-on-debian-wheezy-wi..., which includes this recommendation:
Once the installation is complete, our recommendation is to install ‘captcha’ and ‘preregister’ plug-ins in order to protect the registration against spam bots which create a huge amount useless fake users.
And indeed I do not see a Debian-stable package for the DokuWiki CAPTCHA plugin.
Some things are (rarely) worth going outside the package regime for. Just sayin'.