How to require approval to signup new Bluespice MediaWiki accounts?

Question

On a MediaWiki site running BlueSpice, how can I require that all new account sign ups be approved before the account is created?

I tried adding the ConfirmAccount extension described here, but now on account creation I just get a database error:

A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.

Perhaps this extension is not compatible with BlueSpice?

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The database error was due to not running the update.php script that is part of the ConfirmAccount extension. Once that is run, the error goes away.

However, while the Special:RequestAccount page now works, a user can just go to Special:RequestAccount and create an account without any issues. Perhaps Bluespice is in conflict with ConfirmAccount and is allowing the account to be created?

How do I disable the account creation as the Login page so users must request an account be created for them?

Answer 1

There was in interaction between Bluespice and ConfirmAccount, to get it working properly, I had to go into the Bluespice Permission Manager to edit the permissions of the group * to drop the CreateAccount permission in the Wiki column that was enabled by default.