pspell not working from URL

[shahidbari]

Hi
I am having a strange problem, and dont know the reason. I hope somebody could help me here.

I have a very small php script to test pspell. The script works fine when run on the command line and gives me expected output. But when I try to run the script from URL I dont get any response for a long time then get error page "The page cannot be displayed". I am suspecting something is missing in the configuration to make webserver aware of pspell module. Any clue will be greatly appreciated. Thanks


Following is the script in question. The same script can be found at http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_speller.php

<?php
    $suggestions=null;
    $word  = "tesst";
 
    $pspell_config = pspell_config_create("en","american");
    pspell_config_mode($pspell_config, PSPELL_FAST); 
    $pspell_link = pspell_new_config($pspell_config);

    if (pspell_check ($pspell_link, $word)) {
    } else {
        $suggestions = pspell_suggest ($pspell_link, $word);
    }
    print_r( $suggestions);
?>

[jason]

I had the same problem about a year ago. At the time pspell wasn't even on the server. I opened a support ticket and they installed it, but I had the exact problem you described. Support said they would continue lokkinging into the problem, but I ran out of time for developing the script I was working on and kind of forgot about the whole thing. The ticket I had opened was eventually closed but never resolved.

Sorry that I don't have an answer for you.

--Jason

[G.Bloke]

*Edit* Nevermind, haven't had my tea this morning ... daft suggestion. *Edit*

[gerilya]

Here what I would suggest you to do:

1. Add the following line at the begin of your script:

error_reporting(E_ALL);

2. Try to run the script from command line (i.e., SSH into your account and run the following command

php www/mt/pc_speller.php

Let us know how it goes.

[shahidbari]

Hi
Thanks for the suggestion, I added the

error_reporting(E_ALL);

but it makes no difference. The script still works fine from SSH but fails to load through URL.

[Ron]

Now look at your error log...

[shahidbari]

Hi
Thanks for the suggestion, But I am not sure which error log you are talking about. There is no error. It works fine from SSH account.

It just does not work from URL. There is no error report for the domain.

Thanks a lot

[gerilya]

Log into your control panel and look at the right where Statistics section is. There is a link 'Error Log', click it just after you try to access your script via Web.

[shahidbari]

Hi Gerilya
The error log does not show any error. In fact if I launch the script through URL it never loads. The status bar of IE shows page load in progress but never loads the page and eventually times out.

The culprit seems to be the following line

$pspell_link = pspell_new_config($pspell_config);

Once I remove this line the page gets loaded (with lot of errors). The problem seem to be unability of webserver to initialize the pspell object. Becuase the same script works well on the command line (SSH).

Please try to launch following URL and you will see what I mean.

http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_speller.php

If you get the output in you IE it will be a strange result for me becuase it does not work on my IE even though I have also tried changing different setting for browser.


Thanks a lot of your efforts.

[gerilya]

I think some config changes are taking place on your server because I tried that link a number of times and got different results.

1 time it was successful:

[gerilya@texas ~]# curl -i http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_speller.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:36:35 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwli
mited/1.4 PHP/4.3.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634a mod_ssl/2.8.19 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

Array
(
    [0] => test
    [1] => tset
    [2] => tests
    [3] => testy
    [4] => Tessy
    [5] => Tess
    [6] => toast
    [7] => Tessa
    [8] => Tessi
    [9] => deist
    [10] => teats
    [11] => taste
    [12] => tasty
    [13] => tersest
    [14] => DST
    [15] => yeast
    [16] => teas
    [17] => teased
    [18] => teat
    [19] => tester
    [20] => toasty
    [21] => East
    [22] => east
    [23] => rest
    [24] => yest
)

Then it didn't even make to HTTP header few times.
And here is the most recent result:

[gerilya@texas ~]# curl -i  http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_speller.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:18:26 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634a mod_ssl/2.8.19 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  PSPELL couldn't open the dictionary. reason: I'm sorry I can't find any suitable word lists for the language-tag "en".  in <b>/home/jpakclas/public_html/mt/pc_speller.php</b> on line <b>8</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  0 is not a PSPELL result index in <b>/home/jpakclas/public_html/mt/pc_speller.php</b> on line <b>10</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  0 is not a PSPELL result index in <b>/home/jpakclas/public_html/mt/pc_speller.php</b> on line <b>12</b><br />

[shahidbari]

Hi gerilya
I think Tech Support at JPC have messed up with pspell comilation with PHP.
Now the situation is that the scrtip works perfectly fine from command line but when lauched from URL it does not recognize any of the pspell functions. I have no idea where is the missing link.

Following is the curl cut/paste. Any clue will be a great help

Thanks

$ curl -i http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_speller.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:58:54 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.8 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634a mod_ssl/2.8.19 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function: pspell_config_create() in <b>/home/jpakclas/public_html/mt/pc_speller.php</b> on line <b>5</b><br />

[Gwaihir]

Not finding the right included file(s)?

Might that even explain why it can work from commandline, as you are most likely in a different folder then?

[gerilya]

Well, if a script works from command line and doesn't work from URL, I would ask support to take care of it
But you can help them a bit by making sure that PHP compiled as Apache module has the same options as PHP compiled as binary file:
Create the following file (let's call it info.php)

<?phpinfo();?>

then run it from command line:

php info.php > info.html

then compare the output of
http://yoursite/info.php
and
http://yoursite/info.html

The chances are, you answer will be there.

[shahidbari]

Hi gerilya
Thanks for the post.

It is getting frustrating now. The tech support is just recycling the couple of problems over and over. Now the pspell is not working with neither URL or SSH.

I dont know how to determine the difference between apache installation and binary installation. The suggested urls are as follows

http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_info.php

and

http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_info.php



You can see the error message from following URL

http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_speller.php


The pspell does not seem to locate dictionary files.

Any help will be great

Thanks

Shahid

[shahidbari]

Sorry, the second URL on my previous posting was meant to be

http://www.pakclassified.com/mt/pc_info.html