Forum V. 8.04 - CAPTCHA images suddenly gone

Problem: CAPTCHA images suddenly not rendering after working perfectly. No image is displayed and the message "Code Image - Please contact webmaster if you have problems seeing this code"

Process: Log in as forum administrator. Click the "Admin" link to do some administrative things and when I am presented with the second level login to verify that I am the administrator, the CAPTCHA images are not there.

I installed the forum - relocated and renamed the database and tested the forum and everything worked just fine. I was able to get through the secondary login with CAPTCHA images with no problems. I then worked of some other aspects of my site - not related to the forum or it's database. Then I go back to the forum, login as admin - click the admin link and the CAPTCHA images are gone...

I have a second version of the forum in another directory and it has not lost it's CAPTCHA images yet - but the forum in the directory where I would like it to exist has done this 2 times now and I am at a loss as to why.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what could suddenly cause the CAPTCHA images to fail?

Thanks!
--tz

Thanks for you prompt reply!

I found that suggestion in an another thread - what I get in IE Ver - 6 (friendly errors turned off) is giving:

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In Firefox 1.5.0.7 gives:

The image �http://[mydomain]/forum/CAPTCHA_image.asp� cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

I will continue to investigate - I am really not doing any fancy modifications and the fact that it works for a little while, then starts tossing errors is really odd.

I have duplicated the forum in a new directory and have not see the problem repeat. BOTH forums are referring to the same Access 2000 db. So if the dupe continues to work then I am not going to worry too much about it - mostly curious, but my main goal is to have a working forum!

Cheers!
--tz

We have a winner!

And the winner is...
#3!

I had indeed added some simple HTML to the common.asp file to contain the width of the forum. Once I removed that code (and it's complimentary code in the footer.asp file) my CAPTCHA images returned!

Thanks a bunch for you help and for the fine apps! I will be contributing to your fine efforts monitarily very soon - Your apps are going to play a key role in my current (personal) web effort.

I had this same problem.  I put in a Response.Write to write a comment.  It looked something like this:

Response.Write "<!-- some comment... -->"

and my CAPTCHA failed.  Why would that happen?  I understand if I did some real code, but this was a COMMENT...

Thanks for any insight.