Make sure that forceloginforprofiles and autologinguests are both on. You will need two users. One user who just needs to exist (and thus have a profile) and another who you will actually use to test. Check that your user has the ability to view the other person's profile. ---------------------------------------------------------- Log out. You are going to test two URLs. N == the ID of the user whose profile you are going to access. X == a course ID. user/view.php?id=N&course=X user/profile.php?id=N Access a URL. You should get a message saying that you cannot access profiles as guest. Click continue and log in. You should be sent back to the URL and now be viewing a user profile. Log out and repeat with the second URL. It should behave the same.