CAPTCHA images don't appear (or display as red X's)
Question:
CAPTCHA images don't appear (or display as red X's)
Answer:
Normally this means that you do not have PHP's GD or FreeType extensions installed. Those extensions are required to generate images from any PHP script, and without them iPanel/iHost cannot generate CAPTCHA images.
You can confirm this by launching http://your-ipanel-url/order/captcha.php in your browser; if you see an error like:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function xxx() in /path/to/ipanel/classes/class.captcha.php on line xxx
...then you are definitely missing the necessary PHP extensions.