Installing and Testing SphinxSE with MariaDB

To use SphinxSE with MariaDB you need to first download and install Sphinx.

Complete Sphinx documentation is available on the Sphinx website.

Tips for Installing Sphinx

libexpat

One library we know you will need on Linux before you can install Sphinx is libexpat. If it is not installed, you will get the warning checking for libexpat... not found. On Suse Linux, the package is called libexpat-devel, on Ubuntu the package is called libexpat1-dev.

MariaDB detection

If you run into problems with MariaDB not being detected, use the following options:

The above will tell the configure script where your MySQL/MariaDB installation is.

Testing Sphinx

After installing Sphinx, you can check that things are working in MariaDB by doing the following:

If the above test doesn't pass, check the logs in the 'var' directory. If there is a problem with the sphinx installation, the reason can probably be found in the log file at var/log/sphinx.sphinx/searchd/sphinx.log.

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