Good Morning Everyone
Not sure if this is the right forum but the issue is happening in the HTML editor so I will take a shot.
We use the Aspell plugin for our spell checking on our site. Up until a couple days ago it was working great now once we hit the spell check button the pop-up opens and says "spell check in progress" then displays the error "error = 'Couldn\'t create handle!';". We didn't change anything so not sure what teh issue could be. Everything else is working great.
We are running Moodle 1.8.2+ on a Windows 2003 R2 server with IIS, MySQL 5, GNU ASpell 0.50-3.
Any ideas or thoughts would be great.
Thanks
Ed
Sounds like your permissions to cmd.exe got reset somehow.
That error happens when the spell check engine cannot run Aspell with shell_exec.
To get shell_exec to work in PHP you need to reset the permissions on cmd.exe (which does introduce a security risk).
This thread explains the procedure.