Hi again. Well, I've asked my hosting service to upgrade to ImageMagick 6 and they won't until they upgrade all of their perl modules. They told me their is a work around and to inquire on their support forums, which I did, but very little help was offered.

It seems to me that during the UBB install process it said something about in order to use Captcha, I needed access to either ImageMagick or something else??? I've searched the UBB documentation and forum to no avail. Is their another module or program that will work on Captcha?? Without a functioning version of Captcha I can't see going live with my UBB Board.

All suggestions are appreciated!

Cheers,
John

ImageMagick6 and GD with font support ( i forget which) can both run the captcha system.

ImageMagick has a "binary" option that you can install yourself as a user; it shoudl be as easy as uploading it, setting the paths to it, and chmodding it 755.

Hello... My webhost has recently upgraded to ImageMagick 6.3.4 so I am trying to get Captcha working on my board again. In my control panel I have selected to use ImageMagick in the "Registration Settings," and under "Paths & URL" set the paths to "convert" and mogrify" as follows:

/usr/local/bin/convert
/usr/local/bin/mogrify

If I try to register as a new user there is still no Captcha image displayed. By the way, the paths above are what were given to me by my webhost. I also tried dropping the "local" out of the path just for fun and it didn't work either. Does anyone have any thoughts on what can I try next??

Cheers--

The best suggestion is to ask your host to confirm the path to convert and mogrify.

I doubt they have changed, but you never know.

While logged in as an admin user, bring up the following on your forums:

ubbthreads.php?ubb=captcha&t=im&test=1

That should give some type of information if it's encountering an error of some sorts.

Rick, I ran the test and got the following error:

"PHP error: /usr/local/bin/convert/: not found"

I tried dropping the "local" from my paths and got the same basic error - "PHP error: /usr/bin/convert/: not found"

This is pretty frustrating... what can I try next?

Hmm, the error looks a bit odd. Do you have a trailing slash at the end of the paths? It looks like it's set to

/usr/local/bin/convert/

When it should just be:

/usr/local/bin/convert

I took out the trailing "/" at the paths end and now get the following error after running the test

"PHP error: /usr/local/bin/convert: Unrecognized option (-annotate)."

If that's the case, then it sounds like they actually "downgraded". annotate was added in version 6, but not available in version 5.

Either that, or they have both versions installed, and they gave you the path to version 5 and not version 6.

Likely that they have both versions running beside eachother; I'm thiking that we need a utility in the CP that checks the version...

You can create a "test.php" file which has the following which should read out the version (be sure to update "convert_path" to be your path):


Should read out something similar to: 6.2.8