CAPTCHA on Apache2?

[crawford.rich]

Has anyone had any success getting CAPTCHA to display the image on their server.

I have Apache2 running and php5. The CaptchaSecurityImages.php doesn't generate an image. There must be a module that I need to install? Any tips would be greatly appreciated. THNX

[Thirtysixway]

Double-check that you have GD installed, that's what php uses to generate images.

[windependence]

You need to have the GD and FreeType libraries loaded to run the code.

Let me make sure because you weren't clear in your post. You are running a php script which you copied or wrote yourself right?

-Tim

[crawford.rich]

Yes, it is PHP script. I'm fairly new to php and Apache2.

The script was written and uploaded by my web developer. When you say GD, what exactly do you mean. I have libgd-gd2-perl installed.
THNX

[crawford.rich]

I installed php5-gd. Not sure how to install/config freetype. Getting closer.

[wojox]

Here is the freetype website if you need it

http://freshmeat.net/projects/freetype/

[Thirtysixway]

I installed php5-gd. Not sure how to install/config freetype. Getting closer.

This is all you should need, I believe.

sudo apt-get install php5-gd

[windependence]

Here is the freetype website if you need it

http://freshmeat.net/projects/freetype/

It would be better to use the package that contains the freetype library from the Ubuntu repositories.

sudo apt-get install freetype2

-Tim

[crawford.rich]

Tried to install freetye2 - got the following:

rcrawford@rcrawford-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install freetype2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package freetype2
rcrawford@rcrawford-laptop:~$

[windependence]

Sorry, I think they are included in the msttcorefonts package.

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

-Tim