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After working several hours, trying different settings, trying to trace it down in the code, and searching the manuals and forums, I still can’t can’t get the captcha image to show up in the comments posting area.  The {captcha} tag is not being interpreted.

This problem is on locahost.  I’m staging EE with the multiple sites on localhost before promoting it to production. Localhost was “brought down” from my production site before installing MSM. It works fine on my production site (gregfuller.com). So far, everything else seems to work on localhost.

Under “weblog management”, I have “Enable Captcha for Comment Posting?” turned on for the appropriate site and weblog. Under system preferences—> captcha preference I know the url is correct, because I can put the url in my brower, append the name of one of the images in the directory, and the browser finds it.  I know the server path is correct because I can paste into my file explorer and the file explorer goes there correctly.

I’m sure I’m not logged in on the browser I’m testing it on.

Under these settings, can anyone think of any reason the captcha image would not show?

Thanks, Greg

Did you see captcha images aren’t appearing in the KB?  It catches most issues. 

Is your captcha folder writable? 

What version and build of EE (obviously 1.6 if you are using MSM, but latest build?)?

Could you create a test template with PHP enabled and put this up (obviously, changing the vars as appropriate

<?php
echo '<h2>Testing 1,2,3….</h2><p>';<br />
$img_url= 'http://www.mysite.com/images/captchas/'; // as specified in captcha settings<br />
$img_path = '/FULL PATH INFO/images/captchas/'; // as specified in captcha settings<br />
$wordfile_path = 'FULL PATH INFO/system/lib/words.php'; // path to the words.php file inside your renamed system folder</p>

<p>    if (! function_exists('imagejpeg'))<br />
    {<br />
        echo 'no imagejpeg function';<br />
    }</p>

<p>        if ($img_path == '' || $img_url == '')<br />
        {<br />
            echo 'no image path';<br />
        }</p>

<p>        if ( ! @is_dir($img_path))<br />
        {<br />
            echo 'not directory';<br />
        }<br />
        <br />
        if ( ! is_writable($img_path))<br />
        {<br />
            echo 'not writable';<br />
        }<br />
        <br />
        if ( ! file_exists($wordfile_path))<br />
        {<br />
            echo 'no words';<br />
        }    <br />
        <br />
        if ( ! extension_loaded('gd'))<br />
        {<br />
            echo 'no gd';<br />
        }</p>

<p>?>

Thanks!

No gd.  I loaded gd2 and voila….

Thanks a bunch !

My pleasure Greg, glad you got it running!

I ran the test php you mention in this thread and got the following output:
Testing 1,2,3….
not directory
not writable
could not find words.php
gd library found

I don’t know what this means.  The words.php file is there in the lib folder?  The images and captcha folders are 777?  Can you help me troubleshoot from here?

Thanks.

bedford, I responded to your post here; please do not cross-post like this, it makes it harder for everyone to follow.