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I have opened up access control in my Drupal 5.7 site (running CiviCRM 2.0.4) to allow anonymous users to add themselves as contacts to our CiviCRM database.  I am using the following URL to point to the contact add form (relative here in this post just to give you an example):

/civicrm/contact/add?ct=Individual&reset=1

The form loads and when I fill it out and submit it I get the following error:

Redirect Loop   

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.

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The page its trying to load after clicking submit is:

/civicrm?reset=1


so the interesting thing here is that adding contacts work fine for authenticated users - when I'm logged in as admin.  But not when I'm logged out and trying to add as an anonymous user.  Also, the contact does get added - it's just that the browser throws that error page for some reason.

Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks!

Yes, 2.04 and here's a copy of the logs:

MYIP - test [22/Jun/2008:19:26:25 -0600] "GET /farsounder/civicrm?reset=1 HTTP/1.1" 302 572 "http://variantcube.com/farsounder/civicrm/contact/add?ct=Individual&reset=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0"

MYIP - test [22/Jun/2008:19:26:25 -0600] "GET /farsounder/civicrm/dashboard?reset=1 HTTP/1.1" 302 562 "http://variantcube.com/farsounder/civicrm/contact/add?ct=Individual&reset=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0"

MYIP - test [22/Jun/2008:19:26:26 -0600] "GET /farsounder/civicrm?reset=1 HTTP/1.1" 302 572 "http://variantcube.com/farsounder/civicrm/contact/add?ct=Individual&reset=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0"

MYIP - test [22/Jun/2008:19:26:27 -0600] "GET /farsounder/civicrm/dashboard?reset=1 HTTP/1.1" 302 562 "http://variantcube.com/farsounder/civicrm/contact/add?ct=Individual&reset=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0"

MYIP - test [22/Jun/2008:19:26:27 -0600] "GET /farsounder/civicrm?reset=1 HTTP/1.1" 302 572 "http://variantcube.com/farsounder/civicrm/contact/add?ct=Individual&reset=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0"

I substituted "MYIP" for my IP address - also not sure why it says "test" after the IP address??

They get to it by going here:
http://variantcube.com/farsounder/civicrm/contact/add?ct=Individual&reset=1

Bear in mind that I'm still developing this site so I have it password protected (htaccess-wise).

I'll check on the permissions.  The issue here is that I don't want to grant anonymous users access to view contacts, only to add them.  Is this possible using profiles?

Basically I want to use this form (or a profile form) as an e-newsletter sign up form - so they can add themselves to our contacts database and then we can send them mail via CiviMail.  What is best CiviCRM practice for doing this?

Can you point me to some docs on the CivicRM site that show how to set up a profile to add contacts?

Thanks!!

-Trevor

docs at:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Profiles

lobo