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- Rudy Leffler
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Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- SOLVED - What is the best solution to stop getting the weird spam email on a registration form? Is there a free option that is easy and works? It seems like either Joomla or the template would already include a fix for this?
- Last Edit: 13 years 6 months ago by Rudy Leffler.
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- JEM
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- Check the JED for CAPTCHA integration with the registration form if you are using the core registration form, or with the developer of your 3rd party component if you are using one.
- Thanks,
  jim
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- cdavis411
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- I have had good success with this one: www.joomlaxi.com/products/free-products/...-captcha-plugin.html
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- Rudy Leffler
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- I downloaded that captcha from Joomlaxi, but when I tried to upload it to the site it gave me this:
  Error* JFolder::create: Could not create directory
  
  Seems like I've had this problem with a site before, but I can't remember the solution.
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- cdavis411
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- sounds like a permissions error. Go to tools > system info > directory permissions
  
  is everything writable?
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- Rudy Leffler
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- OK, It was under help on this one. Everything was writable except for the temp, log, and images-banners directories. By the way, this is the latest version of 1.5
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- cdavis411
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- that is correct "help" is what it is under. my error.
  
  OK correct the permissions for that folder. It should be set to 755
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- Rudy Leffler
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- Hmmmm, OK, I looked at the folders with FileZilla and they are all set to 755, but those still say unwriteable?
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- cdavis411
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- in the temp (tmp) folder you can delete everything in it except for the index.html file.
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- Rudy Leffler
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Re: Spam from registration form

Posted 13 years 6 months ago
- I did see that there were a couple of files there that were from a forum I uploaded and later deleted. I deleted them, but still no joy.
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