Server error captcha

[Alvin63]

I have a server error related to captcha - do I need to sort something please?

 

[Paul B]

According to the error message you have an incorrect site key secret entered.

 

[Alvin63]

What does that mean?!!

 

[Alvin63]

I haven't entered anything. The only change recently has been XF upgrades but that was a couple of weeks ago. However on that particular forum I have had the odd thing where it still requires me to authenticate every 30 days, even though, as admin, I turned that off.

 

[Alvin63]

Any suggestions where I could look?

 

[ekool]

The default Xenforo installations all use the same sitekey... maybe there are too many people using it, maybe hcaptcha was having a momentary issue... or did you set up your own hcaptcha account?

 

[Alvin63]

Thanks. No I haven't done anything with captcha So maybe I should just ignore/delete the error it and see if it comes back again?

 

[Ray']

If the hCaptcha service is still working and the error message does not return there is no problem

 

[Alvin63]

Thanks. How would I check it's still working? Try and sign up with a different email?

 

[Alvin63]

The other issue, as mentioned earlier is the 2FA. I initially set 2FA for admin about two years ago, but turned it off again. It still asks me to do 2FA every 30 days! Or if I log in from a different device. It's really annoying. Yet admin permissions are set for 2FA to "Never"

 

[Ray']

Thanks. How would I check it's still working? Try and sign up with a different email?

Yes for example, or the contact form can also offer a captcha challenge but it depends of your settings.
In any case, if you can pass the captcha correctly, it's good.

 

[Ray']

The other issue, as mentioned earlier is the 2FA. I initially set 2FA for admin about two years ago, but turned it off again. It still asks me to do 2FA every 30 days! Or if I log in from a different device. It's really annoying. Yet admin permissions are set for 2FA to "Never"

Did you uncheck this option "Require two-step verification to access the admin control panel" in /admin.php?options/groups/acp/ ?

 

[Alvin63]

Can't see "Groups" under Options in Admin panel? I just set permissions to "Never"

 

[Alvin63]

Found it. No it's unticked

 

[Opus X]

Found it. No it's unticked

do you have 2FA turned off on your user profile on the site itself?

 

[Alvin63]

Thank you - that was it. Don't remember setting that though!

 

[Alvin63]

It was my first forum about 2.5 years ago and I probably did it when initially setting up and had no idea what I was doing Never occurred to me to check my own profile.