Sphinx search engine Installation
Contents
Start
- Installer and date: Henrik Thomsen 07:32, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 - Following the instuctions at MW:Extension:SphinxSearch
 - Documentation sphinx docs
 - Really good article on configuring sphinx
 - Downloaded Sphinx from: [1]
 - Unpacked and unzipped in /usr/local/sw/sphinx-0.9.9-rc1 om mars.tekkom.dk
 
Compiling
Sphinx installs default in /usr/local and search for database. No options really nessasary.
- Executed ./configure which did all the tests succesfully and generated the Makefiles.
 - Executed make to generate the binaries. Showing minor warnings, but ran all tests succesfully
 - Executed make install showing output below
 
Making install in src if test -d ../.svn; then svn info .. --xml | perl svnxrev.pl; fi; make install-am test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /usr/local/sw/sphinx-0.9.9-rc1/config/install-sh -d "/usr/local/bin" /usr/bin/install -c 'indexer' '/usr/local/bin/indexer' /usr/bin/install -c 'searchd' '/usr/local/bin/searchd' /usr/bin/install -c 'search' '/usr/local/bin/search' /usr/bin/install -c 'spelldump' '/usr/local/bin/spelldump' Making install in test test -z "/usr/local/etc" || /usr/local/sw/sphinx-0.9.9-rc1/config/install-sh -d "/usr/local/etc" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'sphinx.conf.dist' '/usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf.dist' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'sphinx-min.conf.dist' '/usr/local/etc/sphinx-min.conf.dist' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'example.sql' '/usr/local/etc/example.sql' make install-data-hook mkdir -p /usr/local/var/data && mkdir -p /usr/local/var/log
- created directory /var/data/tekkom
 - created directory /var/data/tekkomstemmed (English morpholgy)
 
Download mediawiki files for sphinx
Download Showfiles Unpack and copy all the files except sphinx.conf /usr/local/www/data/mediawiki/extensions (Create directory if nessasary)
- Option 1: 
copy the sphnix.conf file to /usr/local/etc directory and change the file where nessasary. - Option 2: make your own sphinx.conf file. I did, see below
 
sphnix.conf
- /usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf
 
#
# Auther: HeTh
# date..: 28/2/2009
#
source src1
{
        type                                    = mysql
        sql_host                                = localhost
        sql_user                                = <REMOVED>
        sql_pass                                = <REMOVED>
        sql_db                                  = wikidb
## --> HeTh inserted
        sql_query_pre   =
        sql_query       = \
          SELECT old_id, old_text\
          FROM text
        sql_query_post  =
        sql_query_info  = SELECT * FROM text WHERE old_id=$id
#<--HeTh
## --> HeTh Commented
#       sql_query                               = \
#               SELECT id, group_id, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date_added) AS date_added, title, content \
#               FROM documents
#
#       sql_attr_uint                   = group_id
#       sql_attr_timestamp              = date_added
#<--HeTh
        sql_query_info                  = SELECT * FROM documents WHERE id=$id
}
############# --> HeTh Testing out morphology in English
index tekkom
{
        source                  = src1
        path                    = /var/data/tekkom
        docinfo                 = extern
        mlock                   = 0
        morphology              = none
        min_word_len            = 1
        charset_type            = sbcs
        html_strip                              = 0
}
index tekkomstemmed : tekkom
{
        path                    = /var/data/tekkomstemmed
        morphology              = stem_en
}
############# <-- HeTh (Commented the simples index below)
#index tekkom
#{
#       source                                  = src1
#       path                                    = /var/data/tekkom
#       docinfo                                 = extern
#       charset_type                    = sbcs
#}
indexer
{
        # HeTh rasised to 64M from 32M 28/2-09
        mem_limit                               = 64M
}
searchd
{
        listen                                  = 3312
        log                                             = /var/log/searchd.log
        query_log                               = /var/log/query.log
        read_timeout                    = 5
        max_children                    = 30
        pid_file                                = /var/log/searchd.pid
        max_matches                             = 1000
        seamless_rotate                 = 1
        preopen_indexes                 = 0
        unlink_old                              = 1
}
Indexing the search database
[root@mars /usr/local/etc]# indexer --config /usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf --all Sphinx 0.9.9-rc1 (r1566) Copyright (c) 2001-2008, Andrew Aksyonoff using config file '/usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf'... indexing index 'tekkom'... collected 2259 docs, 6.1 MB sorted 1.0 Mhits, 100.0% done total 2259 docs, 6148478 bytes total 0.826 sec, 7440030.11 bytes/sec, 2733.53 docs/sec indexing index 'tekkomstemmed'... collected 2259 docs, 6.1 MB sorted 1.0 Mhits, 100.0% done total 2259 docs, 6148478 bytes total 1.559 sec, 3944462.15 bytes/sec, 1449.23 docs/sec total 4 reads, 0.0 sec, 978.7 kb/read avg, 3.2 msec/read avg total 28 writes, 0.0 sec, 344.0 kb/write avg, 1.1 msec/write avg
Testing the search database
time search "dhcp relay" search -q "dhcp relay"
Works fine :-), but apparently shows history documents as well. Lets se later when searching the wiki.
Starting the search daemon
Manually start
searchd --config /usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf
Run command script to FreeBSD
Add this file as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/searchd to automatically start search daemon at boot.
#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/searchd,v 1.00 2009/02/29 09:46:00 HeTh Exp $
# Copyright Mercantec, Viborg, Denmark. www.mercantec.dk
# Auther: Henrik Thomsen/heth@mercantec.dk
# PROVIDE: searchd
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
# BEFORE:  LOGIN
. /etc/rc.subr
name="searchd"
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command="/usr/local/bin/${name}"
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"
add the following line to /etc/rc.conf
searchd_enable="YES"
Updating the search database
The search database should be updated at regular intervals to let new articles and changes searchable. 
While the database is small I've set the indexer to run once every hour in root's crontab file
3 * * * * /usr/local/bin/indexer --config /usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf --rotate --all >/dev/null 2>&1
- --rotate sends SIGHUP to the searchdaemon to use the new database index
 - --all indexes all index'es specified in sphinx.conf
 
Implementing sphinx in the wiki
extension ExtensionFunctions
Sphinx need teh extension ExtensionFunctions
cd /usr/local/www/data/mediawiki/extensions svn export http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ExtensionFunctions.php
Copying sphinx php extension script
cp /usr/local/sw/sphinx-0.9.9-rc1/api/sphinxapi.php /usr/local/www/data/mediawiki/extensions/SphinxSearch
Installation change
LocalSettings.php
Add the following text to your LocalSettings.php
require_once( "$IP/extensions/SphinxSearch/SphinxSearch.php" );