# Mautic Recaptcha Bundle plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [October 17, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-recaptcha-bundle-plugin/25702 "2022-10-17T00:53:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![webprosagency](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/webprosagency/32/1267_2.png) [@webprosagency](https://forum.mautic.org/u/webprosagency)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-recaptcha-bundle-plugin/25702/1 "2022-10-17T00:53:04Z")
I have installed the Recaptcha plugin and followed all instructions and renamed the directory afterwards, no cache/prod directory , one cache under var/cache but empty no prod directory. I’m running Mautic 3.2.5 and installed the : mautic 3 & 4: [mautic-recaptcha.zip]. When I go in the Mautic dashboard I don’t see the Recaptcha directory even by clicking: Install/upgrade it says 0 plugin installed or updated? Any ideas? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-recaptcha-bundle-plugin/25702/2 "2022-10-17T06:20:16Z")
Hi, When you say ‘installed’, there are couple of important steps: 1. download, unzip 2. make sure the folder’s name in the plugin directory is: MauticRecaptchaBundle 3. make sure file ownership is right. the files should belong to the same user as your www user (or the rest of the files) 4. clear mautic cache Check now. ---
**Author:** ![webprosagency](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/webprosagency/32/1267_2.png) [@webprosagency](https://forum.mautic.org/u/webprosagency)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-recaptcha-bundle-plugin/25702/3 "2022-10-17T16:20:58Z")
Hi Joey Thanks for the reply: 1- Yes downloaded and unzipped 2- Yes I renamed the folder: MauticRecaptchaBundle 3- You mean the file ownership in Windows ( I don’t understand that part) (is it file permission from FTP?) 4- The only cache directory I see it at this path: /var/cache (it’s always empty) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![webprosagency](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/webprosagency/32/1267_2.png) [@webprosagency](https://forum.mautic.org/u/webprosagency)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-recaptcha-bundle-plugin/25702/4 "2022-10-17T16:34:09Z")
Maybe you have a better solution to block spammers or bots from opting in to Mautic forms? I tried using the Configuration section - Form Settings - Do not accept submission from these domain names : I entered all the .ru domains to block but it still coming in. I also created a Honeypot but it still goes through so not sure if the Recaptcha will work. So that is my last resource to try to block these spammers which I get about 1 opt-in per minute. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-recaptcha-bundle-plugin/25702/5 "2022-11-21T05:18:32Z")
Hi, have you seen this tutorial? > **[Protect Mautic training: 3 + 2 tips vs form spam and crawlers – Joey Keller](https://joeykeller.com/protect-mautic-training-3-2-tips-vs-form-spam-and-crawlers/)** You can change your apache config in a way that a lot of bots can be filtered out. ---
**Author:** ![ayayron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/ayayron/32/10341_2.png) [@ayayron](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ayayron)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-recaptcha-bundle-plugin/25702/6 "2024-04-19T20:26:38Z")
reCaptcha plugin that you can get from GitHub works great up to version 4.11.x no issues for me, until this recent update for 4.12.x reCaptcha simply breaks the update and I took me 5 hours today to get my version 4.11.x back to working was a pain in the butt, the database got messed up and I did a backup before hand of the site itself and the database but was getting errors trying to re import the backups Mautic simply didn’t want to work. I had to contact my hosting people to do a domain restore from the day before in order to get it back working. I’m not going to be updating to Mautic 4.12 because I have reCaptcha on bunch of forms on a bunch of sits. So the reCaptcha plugin bundle needs to be updated.