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Spam Protector Issues with Captcha

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:22 am
by Nihilists
I am using godaddy as my hosting and I have two blogs installed for different domains.
[root] <-- domain 1
|-[brian] <-- s9y installed here
|-[greene] <-- s9y installed here, domain 2

Yea, I could of organize it better.

I have spam protector installed on both brian and greene. Captcha works fine on brian but does not work on greene. I am getting the word 'CAPTCHA' rather then the image with link to the non-existent image:
http://www.site.com/index.php?/plugin/captcha_2dad6c220b974596915a4657c121ec08

In both directories I have a php5.ini with the following lines:
register_globals=on
memory_limit = 256M

Any help would be great

I verified the memory limit is 256 on greene by calling phpinfo()

I am using on greene:
Serendipity 1.2
PHP 5.2.5
Spam Protector 1.68

brian is using:
Serendipity 1.2-beta5
PHP 5.2.5
Spam Protector 1.68

Re: Spam Protector Issues with Captcha

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:27 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!

s9y 1.2 is outdated, please update to a recent version. The bug might be fixed then, if not, please report back here.

It might be related to event plugins on your install. Call the img-Tag URL manually and inspect the data, maybe you find a PHP error inside the binary file. If you can't do that yourself through a tool like wget, please give the URL to the malfunctioning captcha and we can have a look :).

Regards,
Garvin

Re: Spam Protector Issues with Captcha

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:46 am
by Nihilists
You lost me on the inspect the date part. Here is the link to where its having problems:
http://www. link eremoved .com/index.php?/pages/contactform.html

I will look into getting them both updated.


Edit: I removed the link location

Re: Spam Protector Issues with Captcha

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:01 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!

When looking at the captcha, I see code:

Warning: imagettftext() : Could not read font

This can mean that the *.ttf files inside the spamblock plugin directory do not exist, or are not readable. Compare those files and permissions with the files in your other installation?

HTH,
Garvin

Re: Spam Protector Issues with Captcha

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:15 am
by Nihilists
brian:
serendipity_event_spamblock 705
| VeraSe.ttf 705
| Vera.ttf 705
| chumbly.ttf 705
| 36daysago.ttf 705

greene:
serendipity_event_spamblock 705
| VeraSe.ttf 705
| Vera.ttf 705
| chumbly.ttf 705
| 36daysago.ttf 705

Everything seems to be the same between the two installs of serendipity_event_spamblock including the files not listed above.

Still backing up the entire site of brian before I can attempt the upgrade.

Re: Spam Protector Issues with Captcha

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:03 am
by Nihilists
Upgrading greene to the latest version allowed captcha again.

thanks
-brian