Enabled Captcha in GKcontact Plugin and Now cannot access si

Hi there, I installed the plugin GKContact and enabled it.

I turned on the Captcha function in the plugin parameters within GKcontact and I get the following error. I cannot access the website at all now, nor can I get into Admin. It gives me this error every time. I am bout to delete the plugin directory for this plugin and hopefully it will at least give me access to the site again.

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Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'ReCaptcha plugin needs a public key to be set in its parameters. Please contact a site administrator.' in C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\plugins\captcha\recaptcha\recaptcha.php:52 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: plgCaptchaRecaptcha->onInit('dynamic_recaptc...') #1 C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\libraries\joomla\event\event.php(71): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #2 C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\libraries\joomla\event\dispatcher.php(161): JEvent->update(Array) #3 C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\plugins\system\plg_gkcontact\plg_gkcontact.php(27): JDispatcher->trigger('onInit', 'dynamic_recaptc...') #4 [internal function]: plgSystemPlg_GKContact->onBeforeRender() #5 C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\libraries\joomla\event\event.php(71): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #6 C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\libraries\joomla\event\dispatcher.php(161): JEvent->update(Array) #7 C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\libraries\joomla\application\application.php(642): JDispatcher->trigger('onBeforeRender', NULL) #8 C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\ad in C:\wamp\www\gkshopbuy\plugins\captcha\recaptcha\recaptcha.php on line 52

Thanks.

Removing the plugin manually by deleting the plugin directory for it didnt work. I assume there is a setting file for it somewhere that would need to be deleted.

Hi,

You have to configure reCAPTCHA in Joomla settings before activating it in the plugin.

Hi,

You have to configure reCAPTCHA in Joomla settings before activating it in the plugin.

OK I didnt know that but the thing is I cannot get into Joomla due to this now. So what do I do now?

So I can't get into Jooma admin, cannot load the site at all. I am stuck. I'd assume I could only access the files to edit inside but I wouldnt know where to start to disable the captcha or enable it in the global config.

Please help, thanks.

In the plugin file please comment out the following fragments:

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if($this->params->get('use_recaptcha') == 1) {
         JPluginHelper::importPlugin('captcha');
         $dispatcher = JDispatcher::getInstance();
         $dispatcher->trigger('onInit','dynamic_recaptcha_1');
      }   


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// if reCaptcha is enabled
         if($this->params->get('use_recaptcha') == 1) {
            JPluginHelper::importPlugin('captcha');
            $dispatcher = JDispatcher::getInstance();
            $res = $dispatcher->trigger('onCheckAnswer', $post['recaptcha_response_field']);
            
            if(!$res[0]){
                $app->redirect($post['return'],JText::_('PLG_GKCONTACT_RECAPTCHA_ERROR'),"error");
            }
         }
         // check the token
         JSession::checkToken() or die( 'Invalid Token' );
         // if the reCaptcha and token are correct - check the mail data:


Thanks for that but I did it another way. I deleted the dir and then logged in and disabled the plugin. And then went in and turned off recaptcha and copied the dir back into it.