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Your phpBB Version: 2.0.
phpBB Type: Integramod 141
MODs: No
Your knowledge: Beginner
Board URL: http://www.bindepot.ca

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A lot of people have been emailing me saying they can't register because of the captcha code.
They swear they entered it correctly.

I was wondering, exactly how many characters are supposed to appear?

Refreshing the page, I sometimes see 4 or 5. Not sure, but might have even seen 6.

Was thinking that not all characters are appearing.

[CaNNon]

Have you turned it down?

Like only one font, remove some of the lines that kind of thing.

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I have done everything on that page to make it easier.
One font on a black background - no lattice, skew, etc.

But still having people unable to get it right.

Like I said, it shows 4,5 or 6 characters.
Wasn't sure if the number of characters was supposed to change.

[CaNNon]

Maybe the are using the go back button in the browser? You know they get a new code on every try but if they go back, I think they don't get to see it. The forum will still want the new one.

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I tried myself and on refresh the characters vary in number.

[CaNNon]

characters vary in number

Yea, random from the captcha menu --> "(The CAPTCHA uses 4 to 6)"
I really don't think the number of letters is causing this.

[River]

When I try to get to the CAPTCHA settings page, I get a 404... Is there a permission setting, I'm missing. (Actually a few configuration pages are "404" as well, like Pirillian settings...)

[River]

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[CaNNon]

If thats a new site/install river, I would start with rechecking the chmod permissions to the install txt file.

[River]

The following files are returning a 404, even though they have been CHMOD'ed correctly and they exist on the server:

admin_im_config.php
admin_ampr_config.php
xs_frameset.php
admin_kb_config.php
admin_links_config.php
admin_stats_config.php

The site is a new install - it's been in closed "beta" till all the bugs are ironed out. I've got 4 of my other mods from our old site, looking for bug.

As a matter of fact, this one was brought to my attention, right now:

River,

When I was posting, I clicked on view more emoticons and got this error in the popup box, right below the group:

Could not query recent topics information

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 9

SELECT t.topic_id, t.topic_title, t.topic_last_post_id, t.forum_id, p.post_id, p.poster_id, p.post_time, u.user_id, u.username FROM kzone3_topics AS t, kzone3_posts AS p, kzone3_users AS u WHERE t.forum_id NOT IN ('start') AND t.topic_status <> 2 AND p.post_id = t.topic_last_post_id AND p.poster_id = u.user_id AND t.topic_time <= 1205982473 ORDER BY p.post_time DESC LIMIT

Line : 114
File : blocks_imp_recent_topics.php

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That error has always been there. The same error appears when you search for a user name. It's at the bottom of all the popups. Brought it up along time ago, but never was fixed.

Could I suggest, changing the folder name of this existing forum and starting new again. Database and upload and unzip files. Sounds like your install was corrupt. Changing the folder name will allow you to keep it and go back to it later.

There were some pages in the admin area that came up with page not displayed or similiar.
There was some fixes posted for them, but I beleive the latest download has the corrections in it.
Can't recall what it was at the moment, but I beleive it was only one page.

[River]

Thanks for your quick reply.

The version I installed is the current release. I really can't "start over" again, since I've put a lot of time into this one with GFX work, and setting up the forums, etc, etc...

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Well then you could just reinstall the file system, redo the CHMOD's and copy the old config.php over to the new install of files. This would use the new uploaded files with the old database and you wouldn't loose any information. Same forum but new files portion re-installed.

[River]

Again, thanks for the quick reply. I'll see if anyone else has a suggestion in fixing these six files before I venture using your idea.

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It is something you had done on your end.
There are many installations with success.

Yours is different somehow.
I am presently running 3 sites with this site, and nothing like you have for problems.

Only other thing I can think of is checking your setting in the ACP>General Admin>Configuration
This is only guessing, but double check .script paths.

Isn't error 404 a page not found error? Meaning either the file is missing or corrupt, or it is looking for the file in the wrong spot.

[River]

I'll look again.

I read in the install.txt that the smilies folder should be '777'. That didn't work until I chmodded the folder to '755'...

Go figure...

[CaNNon]

They may be using a little different file system, you may need to do that for all 777 folders.

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I had the same issue using zencart. They tell you to set config.php to 644, but kept getting error message saying file was still vulnerable. Changed it to 444 and everything worked great.

Could be a similiar thing, but some of the files listed don't have any chmod changes.

[River]

Well i reinstalled the package - then CHMODDED all the files and STILL get the 404's on the same files as I mentioned above.

Grrrrrrrr...

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Ok - this has got really annoying.

I still have people contacting me saying that they were told they entered the captcha wrong.

I tried myself to register for them and I get the same problem.
I try until it tells me I had too many tries and to come back later.

I have removed all fonts except Trekker. It appeared to have the easiest to read fonts.
I have turned of the backgoround junk and latice.

The captcha appears clear and I type it in exactly as I see it. With caps when needed.

Can the captcha be changed like some sites where it tells you "Type the word 'spaghetti' in the box below"
Or something similiar to that. Where the word is the same for everyone and all lower case?

[Allen]

I have actually deleted all the fonts in the file and added only one. Times New Roman copied directly from my XPpro font folder.

I haven't had a complaint since.

[River]

How do you remove the background image at least. I can live with the crosshatching...

Still getting at least 2 registrations being abandoned per day because of this.

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In the captcha settings, set Background Image to NO.

Here's a screenshot of my settings and I deleted all the font files except 1 clear plain font.

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In the captcha settings, set Background Image to NO.

Here's a screenshot of my settings and I deleted all the font files except 1 clear plain font.

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Sorry for the double post.

Seems the site has a problem with posting picture as attachment.

I got this error on submit:

Warning: passthru() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/importal/public_html/forum/attach_mod/includes/functions_thumbs.php on line 215

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/importal/public_html/forum/attach_mod/includes/functions_thumbs.php:215) in /home/importal/public_html/forum/includes/functions.php on line 1915

Clicked back and submitted again and got same error.

When I checked the thread, the post took both times, but wasn't aware because of the error.

Helter is going to have to look into that. Don't get it on any of my own sites.

[River]

This would be good if I didn't have an ongoing issue of not being able to use the Config screen. I should have asked, how do you hardcode that out/r make the edit to remove the background image?

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Don't know.

What does it do when going to ACP>General Admin>Captcha Config?

[River]

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /admin/admin_captcha_config.php on this server.

Additionally, a 301 Moved Permanently error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

We went through this before some time ago - it's never worked. I've CHMODDED everything till my fingers turned blue.