Remora

For more information, visit http://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Remora

Sphinx setup

If you require sphinx to be setup (either you are setting up a production Sphinx box, or are testing our implementation of Sphinx) you have a few options

Install

You can install sphinx either by using fabric or manually. If you don't have fabric, follow the manual instructions.

via fabric

Fabric is an ant-like task system for python. In the bin directory you can tweak the INSTALL_ROOT in fabfile.py and then run fab install_sphinx.

via Source

1. Download sphinx http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.9-rc2.tar.gz
2. tar zxf sphinx-0.9.9-rc2.tar.gz
3. cd sphinx-0.9.9-rc2
4. ./configure;make;make install

Note: if you are installing on khan be sure to use the --prefix option.

Configuration

Copy site/app/config/sphinx.conf-dist to /opt/local/etc/sphinx.conf (or whatever your etc directory is) and adjust the database settings as necessary:

type     = mysql
sql_host = localhost
sql_user = root
sql_pass = 
sql_db   = remora

You may also want to search/replace /opt/local/ with a path of your choice.

Create the sphinx index

indexer --all --rotate

The index and log files will be stored in /opt/local/data/sphinx/ and /opt/local/log/searchd/ respectively by default.

Run the daemon

searchd