Without opening up the ide i believe registration needs to be implicitly enabled in the dashboard under i believe users and groups. If this config constant isn't defined(in this case in the db) it will render a page not found.

As for the second part of your questions. Absolutely. You need to visit config/site_theme_paths and set the theme path for the login and registration pages. There are probably tons of examples on how to do this, but I off the top of my head i believe you remove the commented out $v->getInstance, and then there is a set theme by path which is the singlepage name, a comma, then you add the name of your theme.

This will get you in the general direction of what you need to look into.

You're right. I completely overlooked enabling registration. Now that it is enabled it works like a charm.

The part about theming single pages I haven't been able to check out yet. But I will.

Thank you for you swift reply. Keep up!

Is there a built in PHP mailer on the registration? It doesn't seem to work either. This is version 5.3? Um. hmmm. I don't understand how you get a 5 star rating in the CMS category for your WYSIWYG CMS community but I certainly would like to see some improvements on how-to's for the newbie installing THIS particular distro of CMS because things aren't working as expected even when following directions properly. Where's the help? Installed fine, up and running but it's kind of "go figure it all out for yourself" -- kind of deal. Would like to see not only the registration part work with email validation and evidentally a php mailer which isn't working -- and also when auto-downloading themes, requiring registation fails to install the theme. This CMS may soon find homes to those who really like CMS's but do not like to work through issues like these. Sorry, I'm not angry, merely frustrated at why simple things should work like this.

Thanks...

Yes, I'm new to this CMS. I like the simplicity. However, Even when logging in as admin to the most current version, the /register is missing as the previous guy mentioned. Setting Members Only /dashboard/settings/-/set_permissions only registered users may have access. That is set. Under Users and Groups as you state ScottC, /dashboard/users/registration and the radio button Registration is enabled, email must be validated. (Checked), and Use email address as username (Checked), and Enable public profiles.
Enable public profile pages for site members. (Checked), the option for sign-up or registration does not appear. Yes, if you add /register to the root site page, you have the sign-up option. What to do? I think a tutorial needs to be set up, perhaps a video tutorial on how-to for this b/c I'm no novice, I have not run across this one ever in any CMS. It's probably soo simple and staring me right in the face, but too simiple to even know why it isn't working.

Also, downloading and extracting and uploading site themes manually aren't showing up either. How is that done? Any info or tutorial, docs on how-to do that? Change the theme? I saw your post but did not understand needing to visit conf/site_theme and set the theme path for the login and registration pages. I don't get it. Sorry.

Thanks in advance for your posting a DETAILED response on how these two things are done.