CAPTCHA issue on VPS

renkcub · 05-27-2012, 08:46 AM

I have installed a script that uses CAPTCHA. however I am unable to view the CAPTCHA image. the requirements for CAPTCHA is PHP 4/5 with GD and FreeType libraries.

When I run phpinfo I already have php5 with GD enabled. However, just for the sake of it, I reinstalled it again restarted apahche with no luck.

I a using Plesk 10.4

bathory · 05-27-2012, 11:10 AM

Hi and welcome to LQ,

Quote:

the requirements for CAPTCHA is PHP 4/5 with GD and FreeType libraries.

When I run phpinfo I already have php5 with GD enabled.

So you have GD, but do you have freetype installed too?

Regards

renkcub · 05-27-2012, 11:19 AM

I thought GD included freetype

See below (all is enable)

GD Support enabled
GD Version 2.0
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.4.2
T1Lib Support enabled
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPEG Support enabled
libJPEG Version 6b
PNG Support enabled
libPNG Version 1.2.44
WBMP Support enabled

bathory · 05-27-2012, 11:52 AM

If you're running your php script through apache, check apache logs to see what is wrong.
And give us more details, like distro, apache/php version, how did you install them, the captcha script, etc

Regards

renkcub · 05-29-2012, 07:33 PM

I figured it out! …..the reason why the image was not showing was because the path of the image was wrong. after path was corrected....presto the image is now showing.