There are various reasons to prefer web registration instead of “in-band” account registration over XMPP. For example the lack of CAPTCHA support in clients and servers.
mod_register_web has Prosody serve a web page where users can sign up for an account. It implements reCAPTCHA to prevent automated sign-ups (from bots, etc.).
The module is served on Prosody’s default HTTP ports at the path
/register_web
. More details on configuring HTTP modules in
Prosody can be found in our HTTP
documentation.
To configure the CAPTCHA you need to supply a ‘captcha_options’ option:
captcha_options = {
recaptcha_private_key = "12345";
recaptcha_public_key = "78901";
}
The keys for reCAPTCHA are available in your reCAPTCHA account, visit reCAPTCHA for more info.
If no reCaptcha options are set, a simple built in captcha is used.
Copy the files in mod_register_web/templates/ to a new directory.
Edit them, and set
register_web_template = "/path/to/your/custom-templates"
in
your config file.
0.10 | Works |
0.9 | Works |
0.8 | Doesn’t work |
Different CAPTCHA implementation support
Collection of additional data, such as email address
The module kept simple!
With the plugin installer in Prosody 0.12 you can use:
sudo prosodyctl install --server=https://modules.prosody.im/rocks/ mod_register_web
For earlier versions see the documentation for installing 3rd party modules