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Con gure Sphinx Full text search engine

Aneh Thakur
Sep 29, 2017 · 4 min read

Sphinx is open source search engine. Sphinx allow full-text searches. Sphinx is very
efficient to perform search over large data. Sphinx can index data from various
different sources like: MySQL, HTML, Text Files etc.

Key feature of Sphinx search engine

Real-Time full-text indexes

SQL database indexing

Non-SQL storage indexing

Easy application integration

Advanced full-text searching syntax

Rich database-like querying features

High indexing and searching performance

Proven scalability up to billions of documents, terabytes of data, and thousands of

queries per second.

Sphinx support no of database to index data. MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC-

compliant databases as data sources natively. Other data sources can be indexed via
pipe in a custom XML format.

Where we use Sphinx?

We use sphinx for our ecommerce to search for product. Return most accurate data to
user based on there query. We also create small search engine using Sphinx.

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Installing and Setup Sphinx

Installation of Sphinx is very easy. You can follow bellow steps to setup sphinx.

Step 1. Open terminal and run below command

sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch

Step 2. Create database on your MySql server and run below query.

--
-- Database: `sphinx_demo`
--
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `sphinx_demo` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET
latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci;
USE `sphinx_demo`;

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `products`
--

CREATE TABLE `products` (

`id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`design_no` varchar(32) NOT NULL,
`album_id` int(10) NOT NULL,
`catalogno` text NOT NULL,
`brand` text NOT NULL,
`product` text NOT NULL,
`fabric` text NOT NULL,
`stock` text NOT NULL,
`total_products` varchar(32) NOT NULL,
`Image` text NOT NULL,
`subcategory` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`category_id` varchar(32) NOT NULL,
`wholesale_price` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`weight` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
`fcolor` text NOT NULL,
`fwork` text NOT NULL,
`ffabric` text NOT NULL,
`created` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC;

--
-- Dumping data for table `products`
--

INSERT INTO `products` (`id`, `design_no`, `album_id`, `catalogno`,

`brand`, `product`, `fabric`, `stock`, `total_products`, `Image`,
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`subcategory`, `category_id`, `wholesale_price`, `weight`, `fcolor`,

`fwork`, `ffabric`, `created`) VALUES
(1, '182A', 1, '1857', 'Jashan', 'Jashan R812 New Colors red', 'Top
- Georgette , Inner - Santoon , Dupatta - Nazmin', 'Available',
'10', '1857-182A.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1750', '1', '', '', '', '2017-
09-02 05:03:15'),
(2, '182B', 1, '1857', 'Jashan', 'Jashan R812 New Colors', 'Top -
Georgette , Inner - Santoon , Dupatta - Nazmin', 'Available', '10',
'1857-182B.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1750', '1', '', '', '', '2017-09-02
05:03:15'),
(3, '182C', 1, '1857', 'Jashan', 'Jashan R812 New Colors blue', 'Top
- Georgette , Inner - Santoon , Dupatta - Nazmin', 'Available',
'10', '1857-182C.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1750', '1', '', '', '', '2017-
09-02 05:03:15'),
(4, '182D', 1, '1857', 'Jashan', 'Jashan R812 New Colors', 'Top -
Georgette , Inner - Santoon , Dupatta - Nazmin', 'Available', '10',
'1857-182D.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1750', '1', '', '', '', '2017-09-02
05:03:15'),
(5, '23001', 2, '1002', 'Arihant Designer', 'Hamom Vol 10', 'Faux
Geogette Lehenga - net , Inner - Santon', 'Ready To Ship', '10',
'1856-23001.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1635', '1', '', '', '', '2017-09-02
05:03:15'),
(6, '23002', 2, '1002', 'Arihant Designer', 'Hamom Vol 10', 'Faux
Geogette Lehenga - net , Inner - Santon', 'Ready To Ship', '10',
'1856-23002.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1640', '1', '', '', '', '2017-09-02
05:03:15'),
(7, '23003', 2, '1002', 'Arihant Designer', 'Hamom Vol 10', 'Faux
Geogette Lehenga - net , Inner - Santon', 'Ready To Ship', '10',
'1856-23003.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1575', '1', '', '', '', '2017-09-02
05:03:15'),
(8, '23004', 2, '1002', 'Arihant Designer', 'Hamom Vol 10', 'Faux
Geogette Lehenga - net , Inner - Santon', 'Ready To Ship', '10',
'1856-23004.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1545', '1', '', '', '', '2017-09-02
05:03:15'),
(9, '23005', 2, '1002', 'Arihant Designer', 'Hamom Vol 10', 'Faux
Geogette Lehenga - net , Inner - Santon', 'Ready To Ship', '10',
'1856-23005.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1595', '1', '', '', '', '2017-09-02
05:03:15'),
(10, '23006', 2, '1002', 'Arihant Designer', 'Hamom Vol 10', 'Faux
Geogette Lehenga - net , Inner - Santon', 'Ready To Ship', '10',
'1856-23006.JPG', 'Suit', '1', '1670', '1', '', '', '', '2017-09-02
05:03:15'),
(11, '1121', 1, '1874', 'Aardhngini', 'Ardhagini Saree Shashi Series
1121 to 113', 'Fancy', 'Available', '10', '1856-23006.JPG', 'gown',
'1', '1695', '1', 'Red', 'Stone', 'Net', '2017-09-02 05:04:04');

--
-- Indexes for dumped tables
--

--
-- Indexes for table `products`
--
ALTER TABLE `products`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);

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--
-- AUTO_INCREMENT for dumped tables
--

--
-- AUTO_INCREMENT for table `products`
--
ALTER TABLE `products`
MODIFY `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, AUTO_INCREMENT=12;

Step 3. Update Sphinx configuration run below code and update configuration

sudo nano /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf

// Add Below code in your config and save

source src1
{
type = mysql
sql_host = localhost
sql_user = root
sql_pass = Your_Password
sql_db = stock
sql_port = 3306

sql_query = \
SELECT id, design_no, album_id, product, fabric, stock,
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(created) AS date_added \
FROM products

sql_attr_uint = id
sql_field_string = design_no
sql_field_string = album_id
sql_field_string = product
sql_field_string = fabric
sql_field_string = stock
sql_attr_timestamp = date_added
}

index test1
{
source = src1
path = /var/lib/sphinxsearch/data/test1
docinfo = extern
}

searchd
{
listen = 9306:mysql41
log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/searchd.log
query_log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/query.log
read_timeout = 5
max_children = 30
pid_file = /var/run/sphinxsearch/searchd.pid
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seamless_rotate = 1
preopen_indexes = 1
unlink_old = 1
binlog_path = /var/lib/sphinxsearch/data
}

Step 4. Now index your data to Sphinx server

sudo indexer --all --rotate

Step 5. Turn on Sphinx server

sudo sed -i 's/START=no/START=yes/g' /etc/default/sphinxsearch

sudo systemctl restart sphinxsearch.service
sudo systemctl status sphinxsearch.service

Step 6. Test your configuration

mysql -h0 -P9306

// Run query
SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE MATCH('saree'); SHOW META;

Output:-

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You can read complete information about setting up Sphinx Server here

MySQL Sphinx Search Engines Ecommerce

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