[ic] [captcha] won't generate image

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 09:15:19 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?
>
> Yes.

If you're just using [captcha image_tag] are you using any CAPTCHA_*
directives in catalog.cfg or is DOCROOT and IMAGE_DIR taking care of
it for you?

- Grant


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