That was it: Enable hooks. My next issue happens when I try "create user" from the menu. I am getting the following:
Severity: Warning
Message: fopen(C:\xampp\tmp\ci_sessionnvrdsil3kjd5698nccef9lse42u4r36s): failed to open stream: Permission denied
Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php
Line Number: 172
Does this mean that Community Auth is directly reading and writing to the hard drive? This was one of the things I was advised that could not work on Google App Engine. Any idea why I am getting this error (warning)? Or is that an issue with CI in general and my plan to move to AppEngine would never work?
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