# Did not get admin registration screens after finstall **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [December 7, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-not-get-admin-registration-screens-after-finstall/53925 "2016-12-07T15:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-not-get-admin-registration-screens-after-finstall/53925/10 "2016-12-07T17:57:12Z")
Thanks, @eviltrout and @Falco. > [@wstudholmw](#): > > Cannot access the site at all now from link or IP.. That’s because I was enabling let’s encrypt. rebuilding Discourse, and updating the OS. I suspect all that needed to be done was to reboot, but I thought I’d do all of that while I was there. I keep thinking it’s my imagination, but it seems like when Discourse gets started for the first time Sidekiq doesn’t get started and emails don’t get sent. I suspect that this problem might have been solved by simply rebooting. But I was wrong. . . In this case the problem is that Mailgun hadn’t activated the account. Since @wstudholmw couldn’t log in, he couldn’t see the `[Sender] 554 Please activate your Mailgun account. Check your inbox or log in to your control panel to resend the activation email.` messages in the logs. I think that it used to be the case that mailgun would deliver mail to the account holder’s address, but that seems not to be the case. > [@Create admin account(s) in app.yml without email confirmation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-admin-account-s-in-app-yml-without-email-confirmation/53934): > > On a new site, if mail configuration is broken (e.g., not activated in Mailgun), the admin can’t get an email to log in and cannot see the mail logs to diagnose the problem. For as long as I’ve known about WordPress, it’s start-up flow just lets the first person who creates an account be the admin. Apparently this hasn’t been a significant security problem for that platform. Since Discourse further protects sites from hijacking via the DISCOURSE\_DEVELOPER\_EMAILS variable, I see no security down… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/did-not-get-admin-registration-screens-after-finstall/53925)._