Answered Turned On Captcha by mistake can't see or login

Hello everyone,

After many years of not doing much with my site I recently updated and updated to the new version of ModX and trying to remember my way around and consider what fun new things and updates I can do to my site and such. While in the settings I was trying to see why the captcha wasn't working on my contact page and saw the setting was set to NO for enabled. So of course I enabled it, sadly it is not displaying the code like on my contact page for my manger to be able to log back in. Is there any way to change this setting else where in the files / database etc?

Manger login: http://tapanime.com/manager/index.php

Contact Page: http://tapanime.com/contact/

My main goal is to not have to delete everything and start over again if possible.

Not entirely sure how this captcha is working but i suspect it just generates an image based on a random math value. If you use dev tools to inspect the image you can see the rand string on the end of the src. Try using this number to get yourself logged in at least.

This doesn't look like a google recaptcha service but in any case google did drop recaptcha v1 a while back I believe, so you'll need to use recaptcha v2.

Quote from: lkfranklin at Nov 24, 2018, 02:14 AM

Not entirely sure how this captcha is working but i suspect it just generates an image based on a random math value. If you use dev tools to inspect the image you can see the rand string on the end of the src. Try using this number to get yourself logged in at least.

This doesn't look like a google recaptcha service but in any case google did drop recaptcha v1 a while back I believe, so you'll need to use recaptcha v2.

Thanks for the reply, I tried the rand string and this did not work. This is built into ModX and I downloaded the captcha item for it, so I'm not sure google has anything really to do with this that I'm aware of but I'm also not that good on this stuff anymore.

I dont see how the captcha prevents you from logging into the manager?

I do believe you can go into the db and change a system setting value, on the hoster side of things

I dont see how the captcha prevents you from logging into the manager?

If you enable it via the system setting it adds it to the login screen, hence its not showing so he cant log in.

Try logging into phpmyadmin and searching the system settings table in the database for captcha and see if you can disable it from there ( change the value from 1 to 0 )

Quote from: paulp at Nov 24, 2018, 12:26 PM

I dont see how the captcha prevents you from logging into the manager?

If you enable it via the system setting it adds it to the login screen, hence its not showing so he cant log in.

Try logging into phpmyadmin and searching the system settings table in the database for captcha and see if you can disable it from there ( change the value from 1 to 0 )

Paulp, Thanks for the responds. I went into the phpmyadmin and found the 2 entries captcha.enabled and captcha.use_mathstring, I changed both values to 0 sadly it still is looking for the entry on the manager page to login.

Quote from: paulp at Nov 24, 2018, 01:01 PM

I dont have it installed on my sites so can't test it, but make sure you have deleted everything in the core >> cache folder via FTP and then try the manager login screen again

I cleared the cache and that did it, back in thanks a lot for the help.