TOPIC: Problems displaying captcha image

Hi there!
I'm running Joomla 1.0.15, PHP 5 and MySql 5 with GD 2 installed.

I can't get the captcha image displayed in the form when setting it on in the configuration. I get the validation field but the verefication image is not displayed.

Am I missing something?

Regards.

Miguel

Would you give us a link to your web site?

I send you my website address by pm.
Thanks Daniel.

Any luck yet?

I'm having the same problem? On my local XAMPP-webserver everything is working fine. Online it's failing. Any ideas.

GD ( bundled (2.0.34 compatible) ) is on both servers the same?

I'm using Joomla! 1.5.6 Legacy mode with jocomment 3.26

Thanks in advance

So far no luck.

I'm trying to isolate the problem and I will update this post as soon as I'm getting new information.

I'm wondering how JomComment Captcha works...

Regards.

Miguel,

i found out that maybe the problem lies in the missing of GD Freetype Support.

i have two websites which are running on two different webservers. On webserver A everything is working fine. On webserver B not. The only difference i found is the missing of GD Freetype Support on server B. So maybe that's the issue

My webhoster will install the freetype support as soon as possible. So hopefully this wil solve my problem on server B

This is what my php-info gives me :

Freetype Support : enabled
Freetype Linkage : with freetpye
Freetype Version : 2.1.9


Kind Regards.

Thanks for the update Mark.
I've checked the freetype support and in my server I have it installed.

In my case must be something else wich is causing the problem.
Regards.

Look what the rights of captcha.php are. Change them to 644.

I've checked the captcha.php file permisions and it is 644. In fact, all the files in that directory are set to 0644.

Also I've managed to install the web in my local server (I'm running Linux) and I couldn't reproduce the error in my local machine.
So, it seems that it's not an extension conflict.

I will try to get a similar apache and php configuration based on my localhost and see what could be wrong..

In the server wich is giving problems, I have PHP set to:

Any other suggestion?

Click right on the image - properties, copy the url and paste it in your browser. If you get internal server error look in your error log.

It's difficult to click on an image which isn't there. All I get is text and it's linked to www.waltercedric.com

So what now?

My problem is solved after my webhoster has recompiled PHP/Apache with the GD Freetype.

Attached the php-info of the webserver

Kind regards.

captcha.txt

im running joomla 1.5.3 and this is the error that i have
Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagettfbbox() in /home/muxer/domains/pro-muxer.com/public_html/main/components/com_comment/joscomment/captcha.php on line 59
this is the line 59please help
thanks

I am having the same issue. Ive set my permissions to 644 as advised, still no result.

I click on the text and choose view image and I get an internal server error 500. AND an additional 404 error (page not found)

Running Joomla 1.0.15

@ivan - then you are using a version of PHP that doesn't support this function. Which version of PHP do you have?

@Seth - what is the error log saying?

it is version 5.0.37 i think

You think or you are sure?
Just look in the backend of your joomla under help.

ok is 5.2.4 im sure i saw that under help and system information

Are the GD and Freetype libraries installed?

Where can i find that?