I was not getting a Captcha image in the contact form on a particular website. In comparing it to another website that was working OK, I discovered that the differnce was a .htacess file in the wp-content folder with the following commands:
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
<Files ~ ".(css|jpe?g|png|gif|js|flv|swf|zip|rar|pdf|xsl|ico)$">
Allow from all
</Files>
<Files "lib_ajax.php">
Allow from all
</Files>
When I removed this file, the Captcha image appeared. I am using the .htacess for security and would like to keep it in the wp-content folder. Is there a way to modify it so that the Captcha image appears?