Security Image Does Not Display

[jackter]

Script URL: gbook.php
Version of script: v1.6
Hosting company: ipower.com
URL of phpinfo.php: http://www.rao-osan.com/gbook/test/
URL of session_test.php: http://www.rao-osan.com/gbook/test/
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When testing Sign Guestbook on my XAMPP testbed, the security image displays properly. After uploading the files to my web host, the security image does not display. I ran gd_test.php and that works properly. The uploaded files have not been modified. The entries are in oldstuff.txt and chmod has been set to 666.

[Klemen]

IPower doesn't have PHP sessions enabled by default. Try this:

1. If it's not there already create a folder called "tmp" in your cgi-bin folder, for example:
cgi-bin/tmp

2. Upload phpinfo.php to your server:
http://www.phpjunkyard.com/extras/phpinfo.zip
Then open phpinfo.php in your browser and scroll down to "PHP Variables" and you will see the correct path at _SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]

Copy the path that displays there, should be something like

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home/users/web/****/******/public_html

3. Copy this code and change "YOUR_PATH_HERE" to the path you got above:

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session_save_path('YOUR_PATH_HERE/cgi-bin/tmp'); 
ini_set('session.use_trans_sid',0);

For example:

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session_save_path('home/users/web/****/******/public_html/cgi-bin/tmp'); 
ini_set('session.use_trans_sid',0);

-- NOW YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS: --

4.1 Open file gbook.php in Notepad or Wordpad and paste this code in line 34, just below

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define('IN_SCRIPT',true);

Do the same in file print_sec_img.php, paste that code at the top, just below

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<?php

- OR -

4.2 instead of that you can create a new empty text file called "htaccess.txt" and paste this inside:

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php_value session.save_path "home/users/web/****/******/public_html/cgi-bin/tmp"
php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off

(don't forget to change the path to your path and end it with /cgi-bin/tmp). Then upload this file to your server inside the GBook folder and rename it to .htaccess (not that the name starts with a dot!)


Then close all browser windows before testing and see if it works.

[jackter]

The first option resulted in a blank display when I accessed the Guestbook. The second option resulted in "Server Internal Error" response.

Additional information: Ipower default PHP version is 4.4.7. Is this of any signficance?

[Klemen]

Try the 4.1 again (be careful to copy the exact code exactly where told) and in settings.php delete line

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ini_set('display_errors', 0); 

. It should give an error message now, what does it say?

[jackter]

The first time I tried using your new instructions, I was able to display the Guestbook without error, but without the Security Image. I rechecked the Ipower instruction for path and that instruction starts with leading forward slash (/home...). That fixed the problem.

Thank you for taking the time to respond so quickly and thank you for an excellent program. As soon as I had downloaded and checked it, I saw that it was worth a donation so I "dropped a dime" via PayPal. Now I've got my money's worth.