How to disable user registration in Tigase?

In short you have to turn the registration plugin off:

http://www.tigase.org/content/initproperties#sm-plugins

If you still keep configuration in the XML file and want to modify it manually you have to make following modifications:

Edit the XML config file and look for a line in the SessionManager configuration which looks like:

<entry key="plugins" type="String[]">

There are plugins listed which are loaded during the server startup time. You have to find a line with "jabber:iq:register" plugin and remove it. The line you are looking for looks like:

<item value="jabber%3Aiq%3Aregister"/>

Usually this is the first line on the plugins list. Remove this line and restart the server.