Hi:
I'm looking for help troubleshooting several installation issues I'm
having with S/TS on Windows. Here's the background:
I'm using Windows XP, Rails 2.3.8, MySQL 5.1.
Downloaded sphinx:
sphinx-0.9.9-win32.zip
Extracted and installed on c:\sphinx
Set PATH environment variable to include C:\Sphinx; C:\Sphinx\bin;
Installed SphinxSearch as a Windows service (it shows up under
Adminstrative Tools/Services), though I get an error if I try to start
SphinxSearch from the Services Menu (“Error 1067: The process
terminated unexpectedly”)
Installed thinking-sphinx gem, version 1.3.20 (but NOT the plugin.)
riddle (1.1.0) was also installed.
Added the following line to my Rakefile:
require ‘thinking_sphinx/tasks’
Added the following line to my environment.rb file:
config.gem ‘thinking-sphinx’, :lib => ‘thinking-sphinx’, :version
=> ‘1.3.20’
After doing all this, there was no sphinx.yml file in my rails_root/
config directory. Several forum posts referred to the need for it, so
I created it following some of the examples I found:
development:
port: 9312
test:
port: 9313
production:
port: 9312
indexer_binary_name: “c:/sphinx/bin/indexer”
searchd_binary_name: “c:/sphinx/bin/searchd”
bin_path: “c:/sphinx/bin”
At this point, I tried to run a rake task to configure
thinking_sphinx. I get the following output and error message:
$ rake thinking_sphinx:configure
(in c:/rails_projects/molex_app)
Sphinx cannot be found on your system. You may need to configure the
following settings in your config/sphinx.yml file:
* bin_path
* searchd_binary_name
* indexer_binary_name
For more information, read the documentation:
http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/advanced_config.html
Generating Configuration to c:/rails_projects/molex_app/config/
development.sphinx.conf
So despite the “cannot be found” message, a configuration file was
actually created. Here are the contents:
indexer
{
}
searchd
{
address = 127.0.0.1
port = 9312
log = c:/rails_projects/molex_app/log/searchd.query.log
pid_file = c:/rails_projects/molex_app/log/searchd.development.pid
}
One blog post I came across suggested that I copy the libmySQL.dll
file from my MySQL install to C:\Windows\System32. I found the file in
the appropriate bin directory and installed it as suggested.
Also, when I type “searchd” from my C:\Sphinx\bin directory, I get the
following response:
$ searchd
Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117)
Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksynoff
WARNING: forcing --console mode on Windows
FATAL: no readable config file (looked in ./sphinx.conf).
*What I haven’t done yet*
I need to add sections in the development.sphinx.conf file that cover
connection details for my MySQL database. I’m not sure how to do this.
*My questions*
Why can’t I start SphinxSearch as a Windows Service? What should I do
about the error message I get when I try to start it?
Why do I get the “Sphinx cannot be found” message? What do I need to
do fix this problem?
Why can’t searchd find my sphinx.conf file? Where should I put it or
how can I direct Sphinx to look in the right directory?
Thanks very much for your help!
Dean Richardson
Genlighten.com
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