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Liferay CAPTCHA Configuration

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Liferay CAPTCHA Configuration How to configure CAPTCHA for Liferay Overview A lot of sites use CAPTCHA to protect themselves, and to make sure only human beings are allowed to access the site. Liferay has also an out-of-the-box CAPTCHA support. It's enabled by default for account creation, forgot password functionality and can be also configured for other sensitive actions. There are two types of CAPTCHA Engines supported by Liferay: SimpleCaptcha and Google's reCAPTCHA. This article describes how to setup each of them for your portal. General CAPTCHA Configuration CAPTCHA is configured in Liferay inside the System Settings -> Security Tools -> CAPTCHA configuration menu: By default, CAPTCHA is enabled for "Create Account" and "Send Password" actions, but can be also enabled for Message Boards or Forms . The default CAPTCHA Engine is "SimpleCaptcha", but can be changed to "reCAPTCHA". An exampl