I have captch enabled, set the perms on the images directory and nothing shows up..

checking further I see the link in my html which is fine, investigating that, the images created in the captchas directory are zero byes in size and owned by nobody, but the group is set to my
group (as it should be)…

am wondering if i should set it to create in /tmp looks like the images are going to build up and not be removed… hmm… but why is it creating zero byte files....

I had the same problem when I first installed the capch’s. May sure the directory is set to 777.

That fixed it for me.

THe directory is, as its createing the files in there. If it didnt have permission it wouldnt be able to create them, it appears to just not be writing anything into them, so I get loads of zero length files…

Do you have the GD image library available (and working) in your PHP installation?

phpinfo says;

GD Support enabled
GD Version 1.6.2 or higher
JPG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled

So, the images written into the captchas folder are empty or malformed when you view them in a browser?

yep. when I ssh into my box, I see the files it creates in the captchas directory but they are all zero bytes in length.

Hm, this is definitely not a problem I have encountered before (love those!).  In your config.php file, do you have $debug set to 1 (i.e. debugging turned on)?  That might provide some information.  Also, have you tried turning TrueType support off in General Configuration?

right, ive set debug=1

truetype is off
append random number is on

the html output in my page is shows the image link is correct;
img src="http://mega-tokyo.com/blog/images/captchas/1107342241.8127.jpg" width="140" height="30" border="0" alt=” “

the resulting jpg has the -rw-r--r-- permissions and is 0 in length..

the images directry is 777 and the captchas directory under that is 777 ...

with debug=1 how do I get any debug output?

checking the captchas table in the database showsit has entries in it;

enabling truetype again has no affect, have tried with and without random number appended.

I am wondering about the valid2() js function… hm… I am running firefox 1.0 on linux. thats just some kind of hash compare tho isnt it…

mmm I am lost…

The debug setting should have automatically outputted any errors that occurred in PHP.  The valid2() stuff has nothing to do with this.  The image is not showing up (apparently because the file being written is empty) and this is a PHP or server problem.  The only thing I can think of right now is that GD is not working properly, since you seem to have all of the settings correctly.  Send me an email with FTP information for your server and I can take a look and see if it is failing anywhere.