Garvin found the bug:

[quoted from Garvin's DM] The spamblock plugin checks for the age of an article to see whether captchas shall be enabled or not. The default is that an entry needs to be 7 days old for captchas to be enabled. This also applies to the contactform, but there an entry is always ...

Hi Garvin,

Sorry to be so ignorant but what are we really looking for in the session.save_path directory? Am not a PHP expert. I don't know what kind of setting is needed here.

Yes, I checked this setting and you're right there's currently no value set. But Admin said the same PHP configuration ...

Hi Garvin,

We tried various solutions so far and also compared my PHP configuration with the settings on another server where the spam protector plug-in works correctly. Result: PHP settings on both servers are exactly the same, but only my site shows the captcha problem. So it looks like the ...

Some additional php info regarding my .session settings:

Directive Local Value Master Value
session.auto_start Off Off
session.bug_compat_42 On On
session.bug_compat_warn On On
session.cache_expire 180 180
session.cache_limiter nocache nocache
session.cookie_domain no value no value
session.cookie ...

garvinhicking wrote: What's your URL?

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Others may have a better understanding here than I, but submitting forms as a logged in author is a very different experience than submitting a form as a visitor. Have you tried using a different browser, that you are not logged in with, to duplicate the problem? This could just be a cookie issue ...

I have created my S9Y blog with Bulletproof and initially used a Base URL like http://45.355... . I would like to change the Base URL to the real domain name http://www.realsitename.com.

When I change the “Base URL” under Administration > Configuration > Paths to http://www.realsitename.com, for ...