title: How To Create Search Engine with Xapian
body: <p>I am trying create a search engine using Xapian on shared hosting, but I am not getting any idea where to start, I have downloaded the source file.</p>
  
  <p>Xapian-core-1.2.12, 
  Xapian-bindings-1.2.12 and 
  Xapian-omega-1.2.12. </p>
  
  <p>Now what to do with these source file, where to put it and how to install it i cant understand at thing from <a href="http://xapian.org/docs/install.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> installation tutorial.</p>
  
  <p>I am stuck at the initial steps of installation. I want to build it in PHP as i don't know Python.</p>
  
  <p>I goggled a lot and searched here too but didn't find any clear explanation on how to build search with Xapian from scratch.</p>
  
  <p>I shall be able to follow <a href="http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/searching-with-xapian-and-php/index.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> tutorial after installing Xapian.</p>
  
  <p>Please suggest any good tutorial or way to install Xapian on shared server.</p>