Captcha image not showing?

[eluser]chefnelone[/eluser]
Hello,

This is really odd.

I have a captcha image in a form which was working fine until today.
But now the captcha image doesn't show up.

The captcha folder has permissios set to: 777


There are NO error messages, nothing. I linked 4 screenshots pictures to show what I see:

This one shows the missing image in the web, I used Firebug to spot the missing image:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/4944/17352714.jpg

This shows that the image is in the correct remote folder. Then the image is there!
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7407/81645404.jpg

This show the permission of the image, which is 640
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/7403/...3at100.jpg

And this one shows that image is correctly saved in the database table: 'captcha'
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3650/38958356.jpg



I checked everything but I can see what the problem is.
Any help please?

[eluser]chefnelone[/eluser]
I think I spot the problem... but I don't know how to fix it??

If I try to load the url:
http://www.my-domain.com/captcha/image.jpg
I get:
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /captcha/image.jpg on this server.

Then if I change the image permission from 640 to 644 I can load the image.

The image permission should be 644 and not 640.
Since the image is dinamically created by the captcha plugin I don't know how to change this?

I uploaded the captcha_pi.php (captcha plugin)

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
Did you try to set the folder permissions where the images is generated into
to 644?

When that don't work you could try to use the PHP chmod function:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php

to change the permission of the file.

[eluser]chefnelone[/eluser]
[quote author="LuckyFella73" date="1292273336"]Did you try to set the folder permissions where the images is generated into
to 644?

When that don't work you could try to use the PHP chmod function:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.chmod.php

to change the permission of the file.[/quote]

The container folder is set to 777 but it seems like is the script generating the image which set the permissions.

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
The script doesn't contain a chmod command so I assume it's a server setting.

I had a simular problem when setting up a PHP shop-system where the images
where uploaded with the wrong permissions while the same shop-system worked on an
other server without problems. Our admin did some changes and from that on
it worked. Just a thought ...

[eluser]chefnelone[/eluser]
[quote author="LuckyFella73" date="1292274304"]The script doesn't contain a chmod command so I assume it's a server setting.

I had a simular problem when setting up a PHP shop-system where the images
where uploaded with the wrong permissions while the same shop-system worked on an
other server without problems. Our admin did some changes and from that on
it worked. Just a thought ...[/quote]

You are right, I just delete the complete hosting, create a new account and uploaded the complete site and now it works like a charm...

Server issues...

Many thanks.

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
Nice it worls now! Such issues can be really annoying ..

[eluser]John V4lkyr[/eluser]
[quote author="chefnelone" date="1292253970"]I think I spot the problem... but I don't know how to fix it??

If I try to load the url:
http://www.my-domain.com/captcha/image.jpg
I get:
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /captcha/image.jpg on this server.

Then if I change the image permission from 640 to 644 I can load the image.

The image permission should be 644 and not 640.
Since the image is dinamically created by the captcha plugin I don't know how to change this?

I uploaded the captcha_pi.php (captcha plugin)[/quote]

sorry my english is not good,

i have the same problem like this too,
then i found the problem is on my .htaccess file so i just edit the file and add the folder name to
the .htaccess file like this :

from :
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|asset|inc|images|robots\.txt)
to :
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|asset|captcha|inc|images|robots\.txt)

note that i just add the folder named 'captcha' to the string above

may it helpfull...

[eluser]Genuine Scope[/eluser]
now Codeigniter has a helper.Its easy to use.
$this->load->helper('captcha');

[eluser]PAstorKill[/eluser]
How to load 'captcha_pi.php' plugin from the library...

I'm writing :

$CI = & get_instance;

$CI -> load -> plugin('captcha_pi');


but the browser says - Call to undefined method CI_Loader::plugin()


all other code is alright, I'm 200% sure ...