Drupal Tips: Disable "Create New Account" registration on Drupal Website Login Page

Drupal is a great Content Management System (CMS) software which can be used to create great websites with a lot of flexibility and customization options. If you are looking for web servers that you can run on local Windows machine for web development purposes, then you can also check out XAMPP / WAMP. You can see my previous posts: 

•  XAMPP Installation, Configuration and Drupal Installation on Windows  
• How to install and run XAMPP on Windows? (Guide)

In this post, we shall see how to disable the "Create New Account" link in the login page, so that visitors cannot create user accounts on their own. This is useful when new account creation is managed by site administrators. 

About new account creation in Drupal website:

If you are already running Drupal CMS site, then then default login URL is http://example.com/?q=user. Any user can access this link and click on the "Create a New Account" tab to create a new account. Because, by default Drupal allows visitors to create account themselves on the Drupal site. This can be disabled in site configuration so that only administrators has permission to create new accounts.

Watch this short tutorial video how to disable the "Create New Account" in Drupal website:


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