[ic] [captcha] won't generate image

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 18:04:19 EST 2007


> >>> I've studied the docs in the captcha tag's source but I can't get it
> >>> to generate an image on the server.  I'm not sure which of these
> >>> should generate the image but I've tried both:
> >>>
> >>> [captcha function=code image-path=/full/path/captcha]
> >>>
> >>> [captcha function=image name-only=1 relative=1 image-path=/full/
> >>> path/captcha]
> >>>
> >>> I have the following permissions on the captcha directory:
> >>>
> >>> drwxrwxr-x interch users
> >>>
> >>> I've installed the Authen-Captcha and GD perl modules and added the
> >>> following to interchange.cfg:
> >>>
> >>> Require module Authen::Captcha
> >>> Require module GD
> >>>
> >>> I've restarted IC and apache and there is nothing in error.log or
> >>> error_log.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> >>
> >> All I am using to generate is: [captcha image_tag]
> >>
> >> Besides the perl modules, I also had to install gd-devel &
> >> fontconfig-
> >> devel.
> >
> > Hi Josh,
> >
> > Are you using gd-2.0.35, fontconfig-2.4.2, GD-2.35, and
> > Authen-Captcha-1.023?  Are you using any CAPTCHA catalog directives?
>
> My versions are gd-2.0.33, fontconfig-2.4.1, GD-2.35, Authen-
> Captcha-1.023. I'm not using any catalog directives.
>
> FWIW, my images/captcha directory has the same permissions as yours
> (775). Do you think it could be Mod::Interchange?

It works perfectly for me without NoAbsolute set, but won't generate
the image when it is set.  Are you using NoAbsolute in
interchange.cfg?

- Grant


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