[solved] Invalid signup link after upgrade

After upgrading to 5.6 - using the Gitlab Mattermost installer on Ubuntu 16.04 - we’ve been unable to invite new users.

They are first taken to a normal looking page, with a button labelled “GitLab Single Sign-on”. This button links to:

http://mattermost.mysite.com/oauth/gitlab/signup?d={%22display_name%22%3A%22R+Kal%C3%B8%22%2C%22email%22%3A%22mail%40gmail.com%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22group%22}&t=a4zbfwfjwtip4gukqryz9zsp8ao6bpwoj6894zss9tym5yqaq5e9w5ug9pcbb6nf

curl "http://mattermost.mysite.com/oauth/gitlab/signup?d={"%"22display_name"%"22"%"3A"%"22R+Kal"%"C3"%"B8"%"22"%"2C"%"22email"%"22"%"3A"%"22mail"%"40gmail.com"%"22"%"2C"%"22name"%"22"%"3A"%"22group"%"22}&t=a4zbfwfjwtip4gukqryz9zsp8ao6bpwoj6894zss9tym5yqaq5e9w5ug9pcbb6nf" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0" -H "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5" --compressed -H "Connection: keep-alive" -H "Cookie: ajs_user_id="%"22s5fhdx65mfggde184uhd4zqima"%"22; ajs_group_id=null; ajs_anonymous_id="%"2200000000000000000000000000"%"22" -H "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1"

    <!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head>
    <body onload="window.location = '/error?message=The+signup+link+does+not+appear+to+be+valid&amp;s=MEUCIGWdlYOZdClVDJ02bi6BVm8CBLItuwJypk_MRD67lG18AiEA_g7EVrUy_lJ5tzMI5AGCmRGroKL0isGsg2SbgyRCkLM='">
<noscript><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=/error?message=The+signup+link+does+not+appear+to+be+valid&amp;s=MEUCIGWdlYOZdClVDJ02bi6BVm8CBLItuwJypk_MRD67lG18AiEA_g7EVrUy_lJ5tzMI5AGCmRGroKL0isGsg2SbgyRCkLM="></noscript>
<a href="/error?message=The+signup+link+does+not+appear+to+be+valid&amp;s=MEUCIGWdlYOZdClVDJ02bi6BVm8CBLItuwJypk_MRD67lG18AiEA_g7EVrUy_lJ5tzMI5AGCmRGroKL0isGsg2SbgyRCkLM=" style="color: #c0c0c0;">...</a>
</body></html>

From the mattermost.log:

{"level":"error","ts":1553072509.95022,"caller":"web/context.go:60","msg":"The signup link does not appear to be valid","path":"/oauth/gitlab/signup","request_id":"xye65ygdw3fwpj9xd7eo16x6br","ip_addr":"****","user_id":"","method":"GET","err_where":"GetTeamIdFromQuery","http_code":400,"err_details":""}

I’m new to Mattermost, so any explanations or suggestions of what might be going on is much appreciated.

Hi @kavi,

What Mattermost server version did you upgrade from?

Can you help share your config settings with any confidential details redacted?

Hi @amy.blais
Thanks for taking the time to write. Turns out we’ve been using email signup and that had been disabled in the config.json. Reenabling that has allowed users to sign up.

Best regards
Kavi

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