Verification code not displaying

Hi there.

I am new to Modx and need to install some forms on my site. Unfortunately I didn’t get past the tutorial. I followed the tutorial to the letter but the verification code is not showing up. In searching the forums, the only other people I could find with this problem were missing Freetype (most of them) or GD (a few). I have both installed according to phpinfo (if I am reading it correctly.

The relevant output is:
GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.3.5

The html source for the verification in my browser is:
<img src="/modx/manager/includes/veriword.php?rand=1486977417" alt="verification code" border="1"/>

Any idea where I am going wrong?

Check ---> http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,32662.msg198724.html#msg198724

Try entering the full URL of the verification code in the browser and see if you get an image -- i.e.

http://mysite.com/modx/manager/includes/veriword.php?rand=14

(rand gets a different number each time so you don’t get a cached image -- so the number doesn’t matter).

If not, the odds are that either the veriword.php file is missing or corrupt; or the GD and/or Freetype services are misconfigured on the server.

As far as I can tell GD / Freetype seem to be properly configured and working. I can run imagemagik and other captcha generators and can run the script on my own server found here: http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/checking-for-gd-support-on-your-server/ with good results (i.e. downloaded to my server and ran it there).

re. mrhaw’s link
I am running a Mac OS X Server but don’t have any hidden or oddly named files in the ttf directory, just one font file, Frugal Sans which is named ftb_____.ttf.

Directing a browser to http://myinternetfacingaddress/modx/manager/includes/veriword.php?rand=14 returns just error messages (each browser displays the error differently, FireFox unproxied just shows a blank page (same with Opera), FireFox behind privoxy says "Empty server or forwarder response." and Safari says "Safari can’t open the page because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection, which sometimes occurs when the server is busy. You might be able to open the page later."

Don’t know what else to try.

The only thing I can suggest is to download MODx again and copy the veriword file, veriword class file, font and noise directories, etc. to your site. Make sure there are no extraneous files in the font and noise directories.