Yesterday I started to get errors in user registration like: “The characters you entered did not match the characters in the image. Please check the characters and try again.”
I’m using reCaptcha v2 since 14/02 and just now it is failing. On the Google website there is this warning:
We detected that your site is not verifying reCAPTCHA solutions. This is required for the proper use of reCAPTCHA on your site. Please see our developer site for more information.
Apparently my OJS stopped verifying the information. What could have caused that? And what can I do about that?
EDIT: Digging a bit more I got complains about validation since I updated to 2.4.8-3 and started using reCaptcha v2 last week. On the same day of the installation an user reported this problem.
EDIT2: Digging more I found this:
[Mon Feb 19 09:39:08.382556 2018] [:error] [pid 780] [client 200.145.66.44:2236] ojs2 has produced an error\n Message: WARNING: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?\n In file: /usr/home/seer/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/recaptcha/recaptchalib.inc.php\n At line: 198\n Stacktrace: \n Server info:\n OS: FreeBSD\n PHP Version: 5.6.33\n Apache Version: Apache/2.4.29 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.6.33\n DB Driver: mysql\n DB server version: 5.1.66, referer: http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/user/registerUser
[Mon Feb 19 09:39:08.382686 2018] [:error] [pid 780] [client 200.145.66.44:2236] ojs2 has produced an error\n Message: WARNING: file_get_contents(https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify): failed to open stream: No such file or directory\n In file: /usr/home/seer/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/recaptcha/recaptchalib.inc.php\n At line: 198\n Stacktrace: \n Server info:\n OS: FreeBSD\n PHP Version: 5.6.33\n Apache Version: Apache/2.4.29 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.6.33\n DB Driver: mysql\n DB server version: 5.1.66, referer: http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/user/registerUser
I discovered that I did not had php-openssl installed. After this was installed the error changed to:
[Mon Feb 19 12:34:31.965183 2018] [:error] [pid 782] [client 200.145.66.44:4620] ojs2 has produced an error\n Message: WARNING: file_get_contents(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages:\nerror:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed\n In file: /usr/home/seer/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/recaptcha/recaptchalib.inc.php\n At line: 198\n Stacktrace: \n Server info:\n OS: FreeBSD\n PHP Version: 5.6.33\n Apache Version: Apache/2.4.29 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.6.33\n DB Driver: mysql\n DB server version: 5.1.66, referer: http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/user/register
[Mon Feb 19 12:34:31.965277 2018] [:error] [pid 782] [client 200.145.66.44:4620] ojs2 has produced an error\n Message: WARNING: file_get_contents(): Failed to enable crypto\n In file: /usr/home/seer/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/recaptcha/recaptchalib.inc.php\n At line: 198\n Stacktrace: \n Server info:\n OS: FreeBSD\n PHP Version: 5.6.33\n Apache Version: Apache/2.4.29 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.6.33\n DB Driver: mysql\n DB server version: 5.1.66, referer: http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/user/register
[Mon Feb 19 12:34:31.965502 2018] [:error] [pid 782] [client 200.145.66.44:4620] ojs2 has produced an error\n Message: WARNING: file_get_contents(https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify): failed to open stream: operation failed\n In file: /usr/home/seer/public_html/lib/pkp/lib/recaptcha/recaptchalib.inc.php\n At line: 198\n Stacktrace: \n Server info:\n OS: FreeBSD\n PHP Version: 5.6.33\n Apache Version: Apache/2.4.29 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.6.33\n DB Driver: mysql\n DB server version: 5.1.66, referer: http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/alfa/user/register
I had the same error message with OJS 3.1, PHP 5.6.
After setting F_open to “on” in config.php and on the server side PHP configuration, everything worked well.
