RN Captcha not showing properly

Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 04, 2003 Posts: 35

Hi, at Susann's request. I am opening a new topic about an issue that I am currently experiencing. Please see below:

Having got my site to the point of pre-release. I wanted to enable the shortlinks functionality. Following the detailed readme I enabled the options in rnconfig.php and copied the ShortLinks.htaccess information into my root .htaccess file (above the NukeSentinal lines).

Everything appeared to working correctly until I clicked on 'Recommend Us' and 'Feedback'. The Captcha box in both these modules and even the main Login Block just appears with an empty image place holder. However, if I click on ‘Home’ the Captcha box reappears with the image. has anyone seen this at all before?

I searched through the ShortLinks.htaccess file and can see references to both ‘Feedback’ and 'Recommend Us' so I’m slightly stumped.

To clarify - It only happens when the shortlinks are enabled. I have switched them off and everything is fine.

You can see the problem in action here: REMOVED

I am running the following:

RavenNuke v2.30.00
NukeSentinel v2.6.01
BBtoNuke (phpBB) v2.0.23

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:09 pm

It has nothing to do with shortlinks.Your captcha shows the old style of the security code.
Was this a complete new installation or an upgrade ?
Make sure there aren´t any old files on your server.
There are several posts related to captcha issues e.g.:

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts16147-highlight-captcha.html

Here is a picture of the old style and the new captcha:
http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postp105404.html?highlight=#105404

Please use also the search function and check your phpinfo.

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:13 pm

Susann wrote:

It has nothing to do with shortlinks.Your captcha shows the old style of the security code.

Possibly... I did mention the old style Captcha issue in my previous post. Apologies if you believe I have posted in the wrong subforum. It struck me as strange that when shortlinks are not enabled the Captcha information is present on all pages.

Susann wrote:

Was this a complete new installation or an upgrade ?

A completely fresh install with data imported from another DB. I must stress that it was data only and no structural information was transfered. I had the exact same issue with the vanilla install prior to importing the data.

Susann wrote:

Make sure there aren´t any old files on your server.
There are several posts related to captcha issues e.g.:

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/posts16147-highlight-captcha.html

Here is a picture of the old style and the new captcha:
http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postp105404.html?highlight=#105404

Please use also the search function and check your phpinfo.?

Thankyou for the links I did actually spend a few hours searching through the forums for similar issues. I guess I need to work on my search strings Rolling Eyes

phpinfo:

gd
GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled
XPM Support enabled
XBM Support enabled

What I gather from the above posts is that I need to request that Freetype be enabled on my hosts system. Hopefully this will resolve the issue.

Thank you for taking the time to address my problems

Regards

StalkS

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:37 pm

Do you have a link we can see?

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:40 pm

You can see the problem in action here: removed

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:48 pm

I think it might have something to do with the redirect you have on your domain. I don't have time to look at this now, but I found something interesting.

http://www.raven.phpnuke-guild.org/images/captcha.php?size=normal

http://www.retrovault.com/html/images/captcha.php?size=normal

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:37 pm

It appears that php isn't compiled with freetype support. Try phpinfo() on your site and see if it says anything about freetype. (Yes I found that on Google Smile

)

Atleast that is what I think is the problem by what I see here.

http://www.****.com/html/images/captcha.php?size=normal

Fatal error: Call to undefined function imageftbbox() in /********/html/includes/class.php-captcha.php on line 298

That should be showing up in your error log.

As for what you can do about it. I don't know. Mad

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:43 pm

I think you a pretty much screwed unless your host recompiles php with the proper library. Maybe someone else knows something to do. :/

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:57 am

I would like to thank everyone for their input into this issue. My host has just added Freetype for GD and Captcha is now showing as the new funky version and is working throughout the site! Phew... What a relief! Laughing

Regards

StalkS

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:11 am

Great !

registered · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:57 am

I have moved this thread and adjusted the title as this is not ShortLinks related.