Portal administrators can optionally enable CAPTCHA protection on the new account creation page. The steps for doing this in the source release are the following:

1) Get reCAPTCHA Public and Private Keys¶

You must sign up at the reCAPTCHA site to obtain public and private key strings for your host domain. For testing purpose, you use localhost as your domain.

2) Add Keys to Apache Rave¶

Modify the file rave-portal-resources/src/main/resources/portal.properties. Change the portal.captcha.* properties to

 portal.captcha.enabled=true
 portal.captcha.key.private=YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY_STRING
 portal.captcha.key.public=YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY_STRING

When building Apache Rave from source, you should also similarly modify the test property files rave-components/rave-core/src/test/resources/portal.properties and rave-portal/src/test/resources/portal.properties for proper build testing.

3) Build and Deploy Apache Rave¶

Use mvn clean install as usual.