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Probably a bit presumptuous to "expect" replies as soon as possible. This is a community supported forum. The dev team is active on it, but it's not as though you've purchased a support contract or anything. So maybe you can be "hoping" instead of "expecting."

Anyway...

The short answer is that you're confusing concepts, and haven't taken time to understand what the various Joomla extensions do.

CiviCRM "membership" has nothing (inherently) to do with website access -- it is membership in an organization, such as a trade association. You can, however, connect membership with user accounts, and there are various ways to do that based on your needs. You can add a Joomla user account signup to profiles, which can in turn be added to the membership signup page. You can use the CiviUser component to expose user account signups but only allow members in good standing to register, or you can just use the standard Joomla user register form. But unless you've implemented one of these, someone signing up as a member does not, by itself, mean they can access the website.

The module is just a companion to CiviUser, and should be used if you're using the component. CiviAuthenticate replaces the core Joomla authentication plugin and let's you limit access to only members in good standing. So that's the gateway -- not the user account creation. Someone may have a user account, but if their membership expires, they won't be able to login.

Please I was hoping you could explain to me how to ADD A JOOMLA USER ACCOUNT SIGNUP TO PROFILES. I would really appreciate it, if you can help me with this. Thankyou very much.

Thank you very much.I have changed the settings. I am very grateful.....really appreciate it.