Sphinx is a full-text search engine that provides fast and relevant full-text search functionality.
Key Sphinx features are:
- high indexing and searching performance;
- advanced indexing and querying tools (flexible and feature-rich text tokenizer, querying language, several different ranking modes, etc.);
- proven scalability up to billions of documents, terabytes of data, and thousands of queries per second.
Steps to enable Sphinx Search
- Download and install Sphinx on your machine, supported version is Sphinx 2.2.11 - 2.3.2, 3.1 - 3.3
- Go to KBPublisher Admin Area
- Click Settings -> Plugins -> Sphinx Search tab
- Check Enable Sphinx Search checkbox
- Click Save
Sphinx Settings
- Enable Sphinx Search - On, or Off Sphinx (if Sphinx is Off - search is performed by MySQL full text)
- Test Mode - if you wish to test Sphinx, you can firstly set it in a test mode. Sphinx search will be activated only by putting 'sphinx:' in front of your query, e.g. sphinx:banana
- Host - Sphinx daemon host (default is 127.0.0.1)
- Port - Sphinx daemon port (any free port, default is 9306)
- Bin path - a directory where Sphinx is installed. You can leave it empty, but if your system does not recognize Sphinx command without path than - you should fill it, e.g. /usr/local/bin/
- Data path - a directory where all Sphinx related files will be stored. Defaults to KBP cache directory, but you can change it. It should be writable by Scheduled Task (cron) user.
- Version - a version number of Sphinx which you use on the computer.
- Languages - set it to your language, if you have documents in another languages, select the available from the drop down list.
Essential facts for Sphinx Search
- All Sphinx tasks are executed by frequently scheduled task (cron)
- Search index is updated every 5 minutes
Sphinx Search Logs
- You can monitor how Sphinx works, what tasks are executed, what is indexed, what is added to index, etc. in Logs -> Sphinx tab
