Improve the site registration scheduled task

With an unregistered site go to the scheduled task page and check that \core\task\registration_cron_task is ready to be run. You can force this by running a query like this: update mdl_task_scheduled set nextruntime = 11111 where classname = '\core\task\registration_cron_task' Go to admin/cron.php and crtl+f for "Execute scheduled task: Site registration". It may not appear in the first cron run but make sure you don't miss it or you will need to re-alter the task_scheduled table. The output of the scheduled task should look something like this Execute scheduled task: Site registration ... started 08:05:38. Current memory use 22.9MB. Your site is not yet registered. ... used 3 dbqueries ... used 0.01972508430481 seconds Scheduled task complete: Site registration The presence of the "Your site is not registered" is the important part. Go back to the scheduled tasks page and check that the next run date for site registration has been moved into the future.