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

PHP Version:
MySQL Version:


What was done before the problem appeared?



What was done to try to solve the problem?




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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.