update
Hi Jason
I now have the capcha working on my test server (local host) but it still does not work on my live server.
The error log says:
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 125
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 125
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettfbbox() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettfbbox'>function.imagettfbbox</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 136
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
[Wed Jan 12 16:43:16 2011] [error] [client 93.97.103.16] FastCGI: server "/var/www/fcgi/php-cgi" stderr: PHP Warning: imagettftext() [<a href='plugins/function.imagettftext'>function.imagettftext</a>]: Could not read font in /home/fhlinux128/1/1stmodelagency.co.uk/user/htdocs/WA_ValidationToolkit/WAVT_CaptchaSecurityImages.php on line 145
seems to be a font issue
any ideas?
thanks
Ian