Configuring reCAPTCHA

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps protect your site against spam, malicious registrations and other forms of attacks where computers try to disguise themselves as a human. reCAPTCHA comes in the form of a widget that you can easily add to your blog, forum, registration.

Getting Started

• Visit https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin

• Follow the steps by select the reCAPTCHA version and get your site key and your secret key.

Configuration from the Admin panel

• Go to your Admin panel -> Settings -> General -> Security

• Enable the "Captcha -> Options" field by selecting the "Google reCAPTCHA" option

• Set these Settings fields: 'reCAPTCHA version', ‘reCAPTCHA Site Key‘ and ‘reCAPTCHA Secret Key‘

Configuration using the .env file

• Login to your FTP account

• Open /.env file.

• Enable the feature by adding the CAPTCHA= variable like this: CAPTCHA="" (to disable the captcha feature), CAPTCHA="recaptcha" (to enable the reCAPTCHA option)

• Provide the keys there.

RECAPTCHA_VERSION=your-recaptcha-keys-version
RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY=your-recaptcha-site_key
RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY=your-recaptcha-secret_key

• Replace your-recaptcha-keys-version (by v2 or v3), replace your-recaptcha-site_key and your-recaptcha-secret_key by your keys.

• Save the file.

• You are done.

NOTE: The .env file configuration override those of the admin panel.