SPHINX SEARCH ENGINE USAGE

On Linux: (On command Line)

1. Create a configuration file.

Default configuration file name is sphinx.conf.

All Sphinx programs look for this file in current working directory by default.

Sample configuration file, sphinx.conf.dist, which has all the options

documented, is created by configure. Copy and edit that sample file to

make your own configuration:

(assuming Sphinx is installed into /usr/local/sphinx/).

$ cd  /usr/local/sphinx/etc

$ cp sphinx.conf.dist sphinx.conf

$ vi  sphinx.conf

 

Sample configuration file is setup to index documents table from MySQL

database test; so there's example.sql sample data file to populate that table with a

few documents for testing purposes:

$ mysql -u test < /usr/local/sphinx/etc/example.sql.

2. Run the indexer to create full-text index from your data:

$ cd /usr/local/sphinx/etc

$ /usr/local/sphinx/bin/indexer –all

 

3. Query your newly created index!

To query the index from command line, use search utility:

$ cd /usr/local/sphinx/etc

$ /usr/local/sphinx/bin/search test

On Windows: (On command Line)

Step 1. Configure Sphinx:

1. Open the extension archive (e.g. SphinxSearch-trunk-r97051.tar.gz) and
extract sphinx.conf to the Sphinx folder (C:\Sphinx). 


2. Edit the contents of C:\Sphinx\sphinx.conf. Look for sql_db, sql_user,
sql_pass, path, log, query_log and pid_file variables.
Create the paths as necessary. Make sure you use backslashes (\) instead of
forward slashes (/). 


3. Don't forget to add a binlog_path = line (that points to a real folder) in the
searchd to make sure that the service starts successfully in windows



 

Step 2: Run Sphinx Indexer :


Running an incremental indexing process in command shell mode
Run the sphinx indexer to prepare for searching:


        C:\Sphinx\bin\indexer --config C:\Sphinx\sphinx.conf --all

Once again, make sure to replace the paths to match your installation. This
process is actually pretty fast, but clearly depends on how large your wiki is.
Just be patient and watch the screen for updates.




Step 3: Search:


Actual search process from Mediawiki displayed in command shell mode
When the indexer is finished, test that sphinx searching is actually working:


        C:\Sphinx\bin\search --config C:\Sphinx\sphinx.conf "search string"

                                                                                    -PAVANKUMAR JOSHI