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Does anyone know how to include search for groups, blogs, thread prefixes, attachments, VM, PM and albums?

The only real sphinx search for 3 series is searchlight. The best out there...

Possibly. But that costs an arm and a leg.

Very very true haha at least it is worth it :)

I just noticed Sphinx 1.10-beta has been released. With real time index support. Sounds amazing :)

However if you have a big board , compensating that cost will max take 3-4 month with the money you save from your server expenses

Keep the promoting and talk of commercial products out of this thread or next time I clean it up I'll give infractions... Thanks :)

Now, what needs to be done to get this working with vb 4.x? After all this program is free and does not belong to digitalpoint.

*found it
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...-vBulletin-4.0

The first instruction itself BUMPs me :(
*Please do not install this product unless you have a strong technical background

Maybe someone wish to join / continue https://github.com/rcdesign/vb-sphinx_search . It works for 4.x, and used at my production forum. But i have no time to maintain it here and answer technical questions. Of cause, you can report bugs @ github.

That code is much better, than published by Andrian. It requires Sphinx 1.10+.

That "supposedly" will only work with Sphinx 0.9.8. I couldn't get it to work with 0.9.8.1 so I gave up.

Seems, my work with sphinx for vb 4.x finished https://github.com/rcdesign/vb-sphinx_search . "Proper" tags support added, bugs fixed. Note, it requres sphinx 1.11 from svn repo. See details in readme. If someone wish to improve - possible todo is here: https://github.com/rcdesign/vb-sphinx_search/wiki

No problem searching with Arabic, or 2 character searches.

My setup is Arabic RSS feeds coming through the RSS manager which is searchable through Sphinx on 3.8.

92 2.8GHz cores
184GB ram
10,800GB raw 15krpm local storage
8TB raw 7200rpm local storage
24TB raw 7200rpm iscsi storage

If any large vb installs need sphinx on 3.8 I'm only a PM away.

http://r-shief.org/sphinx.PNG

Anyone got this working with similar threads?, i have installed all and it's working nice, except that.

I'm willing to pay if anyone can do this compatible with Similar Threads.

If you are willing to pay, just use this one:
http://products.digitalpoint.com/vbu...inx-search.php

I'm under vB 3.8, and as far i know the digitalpoint sphinx is only for vB 4.x.

Well - if you can wait a bit - Oracle plans to add fulltext indices support for InnoDB with MySQL 5.6 - finally.
Client side the old MyISAM syntax can be used so there's - once 5.6 is released - no longer a need to install any 3rd party plugin.

Maybe just wait a bit until 5.6 reaches production status, then there's no need to play around with Sphinx.

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/p...id=rss_ocom_pr

It would make sense if the vbulletin search overhaul will use this.

If anyone interested on doing support for similar threads:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2274364

if someone or digitalpoint make a 3.8.X sphinx
maybe i will buy it :D
i have version 4.x
but i downgrade my forum to 3.8.x

Why are you downgrading to 3.8 if I may ask? :) Is it even possible to downgrade from 4.X to 3.8.X?

yes you can downgrade vbulletin 4 to 3
vbulletin 4 my server got a lot of querry :(
so i diwngrade it :D
vbulletin 3 very very little querry :D

Anyone got a working solution for vb 3.8.7?

too bad there is no confirmed working version for 3.8.X version.


Anyone ??

It works just fine on 3.8.7, i run it on a few sites/servers & have been since 3.8.7 was released.

Does this work with the new versions of Sphinx Search? (2.x)

Yup.

Confirmed, running it on 2.0.6

anyone got it working with sphinx 2.1.1-beta?
I upgraded from 2.05 and is getting this error:

expected searchd protocol version 1+, got version '0'

Did you upgrade the API as well?

We've been running Sphinx with our VB 3.8 installation for years. It's worked flawlessly (I think) until recently. All of a sudden if I use advanced search to search for a particular user's (apparently any particular user) posts in the last few months, I see only posts that occurred up to September 2...even though I know that the particular users have made many, many posts since then.

I tried manually running the indexer to create a new index. It made no difference.

Any thoughts?

We're running 0.9.8.1 if it matters.

My gut is to tell you to run the newer version and reindex from scratch.

Did you change any of the Forums to be set to "Index New Posts in Search Engine" to No?