TOPIC: cannot see captcha (perms, GD, etc. seem right)

Hello,

I am new here. First of all, thanks so much for such great piece of work. I read through a few threads to try to fix my problem, but I nothing I saw helped me.

The problem is that I cannot see the captcha image. The interesting thing is that if I call the image without the refid param, I can see it. Take a look:

Broken:
fitnessintenformen.com//components/com_c...562c196785527444d6c7

Good:
fitnessintenformen.com//components/com_c...scomment/captcha.php

This makes me think that images are generated correctly.

You can access the comments UI here:
fitnessintenformen.com/fitness-in-10-for-men-blog.html

Have you seen this before?

Thanks,
Marcelo

Do you use any url rewriting component?
What do you find in your error log when you try to execute the image with refid at the end? There must be some error message other than - component not found - which is extremely strange.

I got this from my ISP:

--snip--

[29/Jul/2009:09:04:53 -0400] WARN:www.fitnessin10formen.com:Unknown directive: rewriterule
[29/Jul/2009:09:04:53 -0400] WARN:www.fitnessin10formen.com:Unknown directive: rewritecond

--snip--

You have one existing rewrite on the Zeus back-end:

--snip--

RULE_0_START:
match URL into $ with (/administrator/)
if not matched then
map path into SCRATCH:path from %{URL}
look for file at %{SCRATCH:path}
if not exists then look for dir at %{SCRATCH:path}
if not exists then set URL = /index.php
endif
RULE_0_END:

--snip--

I asked them to remove the rewrite to see if it fixes the problem.

Based on the above, can you tell if this is what's causing the problem?

it could be! I'm sure that it has something with the url rewriting you are using, but I don't know exactly what

I had the same problem and it was caused when I activated my URL rewrite.

Captcha URL Bug

Please note that I caught this minor bug because I use a Windows web server and created my own URL rewrite filter in C++ which logs all http requests. I saw the double // and corrected my code.

Windows web servers require a 3rd party utility for Regex URL rewrite support.

Anyway, I'm sure that with some regex fiddling on your apache web server, you'll get it working.

Hey jeff,
Thanks for the help. I really like the fact that lately more and more users are helping each other in finding the problems and I'm not the only one looking for solutions

A big thank you!

For sure.. thank you SO much! — I'll see if I can fix it with that tweak. For the record, I am on a Zeus server so everything is a little more obscure to troubleshoot and solve.

Again, thanks for your help.

M