my recommendation would be to see if you can view the images at all in your web browser, if they load fine in the browser it'd likely be a graphics processing issue.

they should be:
http://www.yoursite.com/forum/images/captcha/backgrounds/background1.jpg
http://www.yoursite.com/forum/images/captcha/backgrounds/background1.jpg

ImageMagick6 isn't license wear, it's opensource. They can install it from their webpage (here).

and yes, you should be concerned that the background images aren't loading; likely it's due to a limitation in GD, or at least on your system; hence my recommendation of IM.

Thanks Gizmo I already tried the URL trick and they work fine.
Like I said my host provider has me on a win2003 box.
What flavor should I advise them to install.

Well, if the images load, then they where uploaded properly (as if they wheren't uploaded properly you'd have some nice red X's); so ImageMagick would be a good try to see if it's just GD not playing nice.

As for flavors, I don't do windows hosting, so i haven't the faintest; if it was Linux I'd send you at CentOS5 lol.

After reading this and doing what it says, my images are now always showing six letters/numbers.

Looks like I'm in a similar boat here.

Running Apache2, Php5. I have both GD2 and imagemagick installed. though with the captcha option under registration settings the system will only allow the imagemagic. it does not give the gd2 option as the gallery settings do.


Gallery graphics are working fine, but captcha at registration is showing a red x graphic.

I can load the graphics manually ie http://www blah blah/images/captcha blah just fine.

I'm thinking it's in php? I tried installing webalizer and at the very end it pop'd up with an error "Recompile GD with USE="png"

So anyone got any ideas what I may need to do here?

How would I recompile php ??

You need to be using ImageMagick 6 the IM5 version will not work.

I have imagemagic 6.3.5.10 installed.

Seems image magic is not working properly. Photos uploaded to a gallery are turning up X'd

something must be just a tad bit off. GD2 will post graphics fine. But I'm concerned about gd2 as I said an attempted install of webalizer returned an error that gd2 needed to be recompiled with use=png.

Makes me kind of wonder.

What is the path you've entered for ImageMagick? I've noted some not actually including "mogrify" and "convert" in the path (as in they just enter /usr/bin vs /usr/bin/convert and /usr/bin/mogrify; paths will likely vary)

Also double check the permissions for the folder and files

/usr/bin/convert and /usr/bin/mogrify are set. That was one I did catch.