Sphinx config || config / sphinx.yml

Question

my sphinx configuration:

================================ config/sphinx.yml development: bin_path: "/usr/local/bin" searchd_binary_name: searchd indexer_binary_name: indexer 

but every time I run rake ts:index

 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: For more information, read the documentation: http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/advanced_config.html Generating Configuration to config/development.sphinx.conf Sphinx 2.0.1-beta (r2792) Copyright (c) 2001-2011, Andrew Aksyonoff Copyright (c) 2008-2011, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com) using config file 'config/development.sphinx.conf'... indexing index 'post_core'... collected 2 docs, 0.0 MB sorted 0.0 Mhits, 100.0% done total 2 docs, 675 bytes total 0.006 sec, 110510 bytes/sec, 327.43 docs/sec skipping non-plain index 'post'... total 6 reads, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg total 12 writes, 0.000 sec, 0.1 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg rotating indices: succesfully sent SIGHUP to searchd (pid=19438). Generating Configuration to config/development.sphinx.conf Sphinx 2.0.1-beta (r2792) Copyright (c) 2001-2011, Andrew Aksyonoff Copyright (c) 2008-2011, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com) using config file 'config/development.sphinx.conf'... indexing index 'post_core'... collected 2 docs, 0.0 MB sorted 0.0 Mhits, 100.0% done total 2 docs, 675 bytes total 0.006 sec, 105567 bytes/sec, 312.79 docs/sec skipping non-plain index 'post'... total 6 reads, 0.000 sec, 0.0 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg total 12 writes, 0.000 sec, 0.1 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg rotating indices: succesfully sent SIGHUP to searchd (pid=19438). 

So what's the problem? Why is the rake output that it cannot find, even if it is installed?

Answer 1

A warning from Thinking Sphinx could be clearer ... the problem is most likely how old your version of Thinking Sphinx is. Older TS versions do not know about Sphinx 2.0.x - so I recommend upgrading to the latest version of Thinking Sphinx (either 1.4.6 for Rails 1.2 and 2.x, or 2.0.5 for Rails 3).

Answer 2

There are two things that help solve this problem. First, as Pat says, it’s useful to upgrade the Thinking Sphinx plugin or gem to the latest version (either 1.4.x for Rails 2 or 2.0.x for Rails 3). Secondly, it sometimes helps to specify the version of Sphinx in the configuration file (you can find it by calling "indexer"), especially if Sphinx is running on a remote server and Thinking Sphinx does not have access to Sphinx locally:

 production: .. version: 2.0.4 # <------- Version of Sphinx on remote server 192.168.1.10 port: 9312 address: 192.168.1.10 .. 

Answer 3

I ran into the same problem and searched everywhere for an answer without any permission.

The trick that worked for me was to install an older version of the sphinx. v.9 instead of the last beta.

Using the latest Thinking-Sphinx with this version of sphinx resolved the issue.