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Answered 403 Forbidden when user click "Add to dictionary" in RadEditor

Sébastien Nunes

Posted on Oct 22, 2010 (permalink)

Hi,

We are using the RadEditor on our sharepoint portal.

When the user tries to add a word to the dictionary a pop-up appears with the following error message: "Spell Checker Handler Server Error: 403 FORBIDDEN".

I presume that adding a word to the dictionary updates one of the *.tdf file. Is there specific security settings to be assigned to those files ?

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Answer Rumen Rumen

Posted on Oct 25, 2010 (permalink)

Hi Sébastien,

The problem is most likely due to that MOSS uses impersonation. It tries to access the dictionary txt file using the user account which is logged with its windows credentials and is not admin and for that reason the file is inaccessible.

We recommend that you grant read / write permissions to the en-US-Custom.txt file for the everyone user, which will solve the problem.

Best regards,
Rumen
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Sébastien Nunes

Posted on Oct 25, 2010 (permalink)

OK,

Thanks for your answer.

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Mark

Posted on Apr 27, 2011 (permalink)

We got this to work but are experiencing some weirdness. We have a central admin server and two sharepoint WFEs in our certification server found. I found the following directory: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\wpresources\RadEditorSharePoint\5.6.2.0__1f131a624888eeed\Resources\App_Data\RadSpell and noticed that there is no en-US-custom.txt file. I created the file on all three servers in the above location and gave the "Everyone" user read / write permissions. I had my business analyst test this. She did the following:

Added "wordone" and did a spell check. The spell checker did not find it and allowed her to add it.
Added "wordtwo" and did a spell check. The spell checker did not find this either and allowed her to find it.

The odd thing tho is that one WFE had one entry "wordone" and the other WFE had the other entry "wordtwo". When I edited the page she was using, I ran the same spell check. It found "wordtwo" as the only word that was incorrect. When I looked at the WFEs, there was no addition to the first custom text file, however the second one had wordone and wordtwo.

The problem seems to be that the text files are not getting updated on both WFEs. Can you please advise?

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