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Well, the Help Desk has pretty emphatically said that GD is installed and running and that I can't expect any further help on this issue from them. So if anyone reading this has been able to get the MTSecurityCode captcha to work here at TCH and is willing to spend some time helping me figure out why mine isn't working, I'd sure appreciate it.

Thanks for the help, Rick and David. We're making progress! The scodetest.cgi is indeed running now and shows that GD and GD lib are installed, but scode itself still generates the "image cannot be displayed because it contains errors" message. It looks like the required files are being created in the /tmp/captcha/ directory and that the code is being sent to my comment entry window, but the image itself isn't generating. The plug-in's author is pretty adamant that when the image doesn't show, GD and GD lib are the problem. Since scodetest and my cpanel both shows both are installed, that suggests to me a related problem the author suggested: that perhaps they need to be reinstalled in a particular order: "Once GD is installed, then install the GD perl lib, the image pop-up. (Note the sequence. You install GD first then GD perl lib..the other way round wont work.)" Is it possible to have someone reinstall them in that order to see if that's the problem? (I'm sorry, I don't know if this is something that can be done just for my site or if I'm asking for a TCH-wide action -- if the latter, nevermind.) Thanks, Chuck

I'm still poking around in there. Despite the fact that scodetest isn't working, the actual mt-scode.cgi does seem to be working -- sort of. It looks like it's almost doing what it's supposed to be doing -- what it's doing wrong is it's NOT displaying the captcha image. The scode FAQ says no image means "100%, without fail, everyone who fails to get an image is because *they did not have GD and GD perl lib*." So...What's up wit' dat?

I'm on my 2nd go-round trying to install the scode captcha to my Movable Type 3.15 installation and I'm getting nothing but headaches. I'm fairly sure I've installed everything correctly, but it still isn't working. At all. Again. And I can't even trouble-shoot it because I can't get the stinking scodetest.cgi to work to tell me what I've done wrong. So let's start there, at trying to get the stinking troubleshooting component working. When I try to run scodetest.cgi at http://www.deadpan.net/scgi-bin/scodetest.cgi, I'm getting a 500 Internal Server Error. Scodetest.cgi is installed in the same directory as mt.cgi, which does work. It is chmodded to 755. My temp directory is set up as "captcha" as a subdirectory of /tmp/ in my root, it is chmodded to 755, it is ref'd as such in my Scode.pm file, which is in the /lib/MT/ folder with chmod of 644. I'm stumped and getting hugely frustrated. Can ANYone help me with this? Please?

Duh. It is now. Thanks!

Whoops, hold the phone, I figured it out. I copied my old html files over here when I made the move and my index was pointing to the *old* category index files. MT 3.15 handles them differently and now that I'm linking to the *new* category index files it's working just fine. But thanks for the help and the welcomes!

Yes, I guess that would help, huh? The main page is at www.deadpan.net/pie. If you select any of the category archives in the sidebar, you'll see the error if you try to read the comments on the archived entries. I've think I've narrowed it down to the hard-coded link I put in the sidebar to the category archive files. I hand-coded it directly to cat-motorcycles.html, for example, but I don't think that file is being dynamically rendered by MT. I don't know where MT puts the "real" archive index page, and I'm doing probably the category links wrong anyway.

I just tried to upload an image file and create a thumbnail using Movable Type and encountered the following error: Thumbnail failed: Reading image failed: Exception 395: unable to open module file `/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.1.7/modules-Q16/coders/jpeg.la' ImageMagick shows up in my list of installed perl modules, so I'm kind of stumped. Suggestions?

I'm getting a weird error with my comments. Most of them come up just fine, but some cause the following error: The requested URL /scgi-bin/mt-antispam-comments.cgi was not found on this server. I know it has something to do with my having changed the name of mt-comments.cgi at one point. Backstory: A few months back I renamed mt-comments.cgi to mt-antispam-comments.cgi. Everything worked fine after that. Last week I a) moved my entire site here to TCH (loving it so far) and b ) upgraded to MT 3.15 at the same time. (I know, I know: begging for trouble doing it simultaneously.) I'm using the default name of mt-comments.cgi now. My site is working okay here at the new location and with the new MT version, except for some of the comments. As I said, most of the comments load up just fine, but some of them give the mti-antispam-comments.cgi was not found on the server error. Comments accessed through my new category archive entries consistenly give the error, as well as random older entries with no pattern I can see. I've checked mt.cfg, all my templates, my style sheet, everything I can think of for references to the old name and everything's clean. I've rebuilt my site several times. Nothing helps and now I'm stumped. Suggestions, anyone?