Install/Uninstall instruction for the Geeklog reCAPTCHA plugin

What is reCAPTCHA?

ReCAPTCHA® is a free anti-bot service providing powerful CAPTCHA. This plugin makes it easy to use reCAPTCHA with Geeklog.

INSTALL

In the following descriptions

  1. Uncompress the recaptcha plugin archive while in the <geeklog_dir>/plugins directory. The archive will create a directory called recaptcha in the plugins directory.
  2. Create the admin directory. Under your <admin>/plugins/ directory, create a directory called recaptcha.
  3. Change to your <geeklog_dir>/plugins/recaptcha/ directory. Copy the files in the admin directory to the <admin>/plugins/recaptcha/ directory your created in step 2.
  4. Log in to your Geeklog as a root user, go to the plugin edutor and click on reCAPTCHA. If the install failed, examine Geeklog system errorlog for possible problems.
  5. Important: Set up API keys. Go to the Configuration and enter reCAPTCHA API Public Key and Private Key that you can get at https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create. It is not until you set the API keys that you can use reCAPTCHA service.

UNINSTALL

  1. Log in to your Geeklog as a root user, go to the plugin edutor and click on reCAPTCHA. If the unstall failed, examine Geeklog system errorlog for possible problems.
  2. Delete the two plugin directories created in the install process: <geeklog-dir>/plugins/recaptcha/ and <admin>/plugins/recaptcha/.

REVISION HISTORY

VersionDate(YYYY-MM-DD)Description
1.0.12014-01-26
  • Added a <div> tag to enclose the reCAPTCHA code. Patch provided by Tom.
  • Changed to write log entries into "logs/recaptch.log". Patch provided by Tom.
1.0.02014-01-24Initial release