v2.3.8

Sphinx Engine Installation

If you want to use our extension with Sphinx Engine, you first need to install it.

Note

Warning: The minimum allowed sphinx engine version is 2.2.x, 3.x

Installation includes a set of actions that should be performed under root privileges. Actions can differ depending on the selected platform.

After installation, run full reindex of Sphinx Engine indexes to fully enable your new search engine.

Installation on Ubuntu

Execute the following command from console/SSH under root privileges:

sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch

Proceed to Connection with Sphinx Engine

Installation on CentOS

Execute the following command from console/SSH under root privileges:

sudo yum install sphinxsearch

Proceed to Connection with Sphinx Engine

Installation with Stemmer (with language specific morphology)

In order to install Sphinx with Stemmer, run the following commands from console/SSH under root privileges:

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.11-release.tar.gz
tar xvf sphinx-2.2.11-release.tar.gz
cd sphinx-2.2.11-release
wget http://snowball.tartarus.org/dist/libstemmer_c.tgz
tar xvf libstemmer_c.tgz
./configure --with-libstemmer
make
make install

  • Learn more about Libstemmer morphology

    Libstemmer controls which characters are accepted as valid and which are not, and how the accepted characters should be transformed (eg. should the case be removed or not).

    If charset table is configured for special language chars, then search phrases "kottkvarn" and "köttkvarn" will return the same result.

    Libstemmer supports morphology of the following languages:

    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Norwegian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Turkish

To configure morphology and charset tables for additional languages, perform the following actions:

  • Open the file /vendor/mirasvit/module-search-sphinx/src/SearchSphinx/etc/conf/index.conf.

  • Configure morphology variable. Standard language codes you can find here. Use two-letter codes from 639-1 column.

    Tip

    For example, to add German to the list of supported languages, you need to set in index.conf:

    morphology = stem_enru, libstemmer_de

    Read more about morphology here.

  • Add charsets to the charset_table variable. List of codes for different charset tables can be found here

    Tip

    For example, to add English and Russian characters, variable should look as shown below:

    charset_table = 0..9, A..Z->a..z, _, a..z, \
                U+410..U+42F->U+430..U+44F, U+430..U+44F, U+401->U+451, U+451

    Read more about character tables here.

Proceed to Connection with Sphinx Engine

Manual installation

In some cases, automatic installation either does not start, or even is not possible. In those cases, you can manually install Sphinx:

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.2.11-release.tar.gz
tar xvf sphinx-2.2.11-release.tar.gz
cd sphinx-2.2.11-release
./configure
make
make install

Configuration file will be generated automatically.

Proceed to Connection with Sphinx Engine