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Script URL: http://www.cadena-lirica.com/libretto/gbook.php
Version of script:1.5
Hosting company: trans-it.nl
URL of phpinfo.php: http://www.cadena-lirica.com/libretto/phpinfo.php
URL of session_test.php: http://www.cadena-lirica.com/libretto/session_test.php
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GBook is a simple but elegant guestbook script; exactly what I was looking for. Therefore I hope I can solve the problem I'm experiencing with the security images.

I installed the script exactly according to the instructions in the manual. (I only made a few changes to the css file). The permissions for the renamed entries text file and banned-ip.txt I set to 666.

The gd_test.php file works. But still I get the message: "wrong security code" without an image showing when I set autosubmit to 1. Even when I set autosubmit to 2 no text-based security number shows, only the message "wrong security code". Other browsers and computers show the same results.

By now (after reading half of the forum) I figured it probably has something to do with php sessions. So I send an e-mail to trans-it support. Unfortunately it takes them some time to ponder....it's been over a month now. I've resend the e-mail, but don't expect too much from them.

When anyone reading this has some useful tips it will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Vera

Hi,

The problem is probably that PHP on your server is set to automatically start sessions.

Try uploading the .htaccess file inside this Zip to your "libertto" folder:
http://www.phpjunkyard.com/extras/sessi ... access.zip

Inside is a .htaccess file that locally disables session auto-start. Make sure you upload the .htaccess file in ASCII mode and it must be named exactly ".htaccess"

Upload, close ALL browser windows and test it. Come back with results.

Hi Klemen,

First of all thanks for the fast reply!

I uploaded the .htaccess file like you advised. Unfortunately it doesn't solve the problem. I tried it with the autosubmit option set to 1 as well as setting it to 2. This gives the same results as described in my first post (tested with different browsers on different computers to be sure).

Is the htaccess file uploaded now? It doesn't seem so.

Or you can contact your host and ask them if they can disable PHP session.autostart locally for your http://www.cadena-lirica.com/libretto folder.

OR you can see if this helps:
- open gbook.php in Notepad
- find and delete these two lines 45 and 46: - save changes and upload the edited gbook.php
- do the same with file "print_sec_img.php" (lines 2 and 3)

Then close all browser windows and test if it works.

Ah, I've got it!

I did upload the .htaccess file yesterday, so I tried editing the gbook.php and print_sec_img.php first. This option works!

But I also wanted to make the option with the .htaccess to work. The .htaccess file has the line "php_value session.auto_start 1" in it. When I looked in my phpinfo file, the session auto start was already on. So I changed the line into "php_value session.auto_start 0" and uploaded this .htaccess file and the original gbook.php and print_sec_img.php. And now I have this working too!

Thanks for your help,

Vera

Hi,

Oh, my mistake, should be autostart 0 of course

Glad to hear you got it working though