CAPTCHA Anti-Spam Image Won't Load GD OK

[ravercreative]

It was previously stated:
Try downloading and uploading the original files again - everything except hesk_settings.php, header/footer and "install" folder.

It's quite possible you saved the files as UTF-8 and have a byte order mark at the start of files.


This didn't work. Any thoughts?

[ravercreative]

Fixed it.

Solution:

Error in settings.php

Must leave this intact:

/* URL of the gbook.php file. */
$settings['gbook_url']='http://www.domain.com/gbook/gbook.php';

If I specified the actual url (worked before since 2009) in place of domain.com, got an error on line 46:
/* Use "Your website" field? 1 = YES, 0 = NO */
$settings['use_url']=0; (LINE 46)

Tried both 0 and 1 for this and still got the same error. So I left the domain.com and line 46 with '0'. That fixed it. Odd that it stopped working after 3 years for no apparent reason. But now everything is good

[Henrie]

The setting
/* Use "Your website" field? 1 = YES, 0 = NO */
$settings['use_url']=0; (LINE 46)
is used to enable/disable the use of the website field in the guestbook form where a visitor can fill the message to leave in the guestbook.
This setting has nothing to do with
/* URL of the gbook.php file. */
$settings['gbook_url']='http://www.domain.com/gbook/gbook.php';
The 'gbook_url' must always be set to the correct url to the gbook.php file to let Gbook function properly.

Greetings,
Henrie

[Klemen]

Henrie is correct, these changes don't effect the anti-spam image.

The most likely issue is you had utf-8 byte order mark (or some other error) in your old settings file hence the image didn't show correctly (broken sessions).