reCaptcha does not show on registration page. IE shows security certificate error.

berdia

Hi,

I am using reCaptcha on registration page but every time it loads it gives an error message saying there is a security certificate error and it does not show reCaptcha.
I red this artice http://www.pc-productions.net/newsdetails.cfm?nid=11 and wanted to find out is this something what must be done by Vanilla administrator or I can do something on my end.

Thank you.

berdia

I solved this problem yesterday. I am not sure if you experience the same problem: reCaptcha not showing on the registration page and IE giving security certificate error but if you do then here is what you have to do.
Go to http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/php.html and download latest reCaptcha Library for PHP. Unzip it in your computer, find file called recaptchalib.php, rename it to functions.recaptchalib.php and copy/overwrite it on top /Library/vendors/recaptcha/functions.recaptchalib.php on your webserver.

Basically, the idea is to update old reCaptcha library with new because Google has depriciated the old library and issued a new reCaptcha library which I beleive is not updated in Vanilla Forum 2.0. yet.
I was told one of the developers that they will update it soon.

I hope it will help you.

Todd

This was also fixed sometime ago here: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/commit/29796ce04139d8d5030bd69829f511f1fc9b42c8

Pettern

I am also experiencing problems with this, just that it only shows the reCAPTCHA box for certain users and not all.

berdia

I solved this problem yesterday. I am not sure if you experience the same problem: reCaptcha not showing on the registration page and IE giving security certificate error but if you do then here is what you have to do.
Go to http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/docs/php.html and download latest reCaptcha Library for PHP. Unzip it in your computer, find file called recaptchalib.php, rename it to functions.recaptchalib.php and copy/overwrite it on top /Library/vendors/recaptcha/functions.recaptchalib.php on your webserver.

Basically, the idea is to update old reCaptcha library with new because Google has depriciated the old library and issued a new reCaptcha library which I beleive is not updated in Vanilla Forum 2.0. yet.
I was told one of the developers that they will update it soon.

I hope it will help you.

hyphy

Would be nice if Google didn't do these sort of things in the future and kept these necessary updates on their own side of the server. Oh well. Thanks for the update and solution berdia!

berdia

My pleasure! Google at least has to send out mass email to everybody who is using reCaptcha and notify. I have other websites using it too and I would never knew about it if I have not found out here.

Anyway, wish you luck with your development.

Todd

This was also fixed sometime ago here: https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/commit/29796ce04139d8d5030bd69829f511f1fc9b42c8