title: How to Install Sphinx on LINUX(ubuntu)
body: <p>This is Raja, I'm using PHP for my web development. Recently i was supposed to install "Sphinx" search into my application with LINUX as OS.</p>
  
  <p>I've followed the instruction given in this website </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-sphinx-on-ubuntu-10.10" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-sphinx-on-ubuntu-10.10 </a></p>
  
  <p>to install sphinx in LINUX(Ubuntu) OS and I've tested the application in the terminal, i got the results like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>root@dev2:/# search "test"
  Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117)
  Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff
  
  using config file '/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf'...
  index 'test1': query 'test ': returned 3 matches of 3 total in 0.000 sec
  
  displaying matches:
  1. document=1, weight=2, group_id=1, date_added=Thu Jan  5 18:18:55 2012
          id=1
          group_id=1
          group_id2=5
          date_added=2012-01-05 18:18:55
          title=test one
          content=this is my test document number one. also checking search within phrases.
  2. document=2, weight=2, group_id=1, date_added=Thu Jan  5 18:18:55 2012
          id=2
          group_id=1
          group_id2=6
          date_added=2012-01-05 18:18:55
          title=test two
          content=this is my test document number two
  3. document=4, weight=1, group_id=2, date_added=Thu Jan  5 18:18:55 2012
          id=4
          group_id=2
          group_id2=8
          date_added=2012-01-05 18:18:55
          title=doc number four
          content=this is to test groups
  
  words:
  1. 'test': 3 documents, 5 hits
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The Problem is that, I've created the directory in the location "/var/www/sphinx_search", which contains sphinx.conf, sphinxapi.php and test.php files. </p>
  
  <p>the code behind sphinx.conf is</p>
  
  <pre><code>source src1
  {
      type = mysql
      sql_host = localhost
      sql_user = user
      sql_pass = pwd
      sql_db = test
      sql_port = 3306 # optional, default is 3306
      sql_query = \
      SELECT id, group_id, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date_added) AS date_added, title, content \
      FROM documents
      sql_attr_uint = group_id
      sql_attr_timestamp = date_added
      sql_query_info = SELECT * FROM documents WHERE id=$id
  }
  
  index test1
  {
      source = src1
      path = /var/lib/sphinxsearch/data/test1
      docinfo = extern
      charset_type = sbcs
  }
  
  indexer
  {
      mem_limit = 32M
  }
  
  searchd
  {
      port = 9312
      log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/searchd.log
      query_log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/query.log
      read_timeout = 5
      max_children = 30
      pid_file = /var/run/searchd.pid
      max_matches = 1000
      seamless_rotate = 1
      preopen_indexes = 0
      unlink_old = 1
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and the code behind test.php is</p>
  
  <pre><code>require_once('sphinxapi.php');
  //require_once('api/sphinxapi.php');
  $s = new SphinxClient;
  $s-&gt;setServer("123.123.123.123", 9312); // NOT "localhost" under Windows 7!
  $s-&gt;setMatchMode(SPH_MATCH_EXTENDED2);
  
  $result = $s-&gt;Query("group");
  
  echo '&lt;pre&gt;';print_r($result);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>when i'm trying to run this application in browser (http://localhost/Raja/search_engine/sphinx/) this error is getting displayed.</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"status":"failed","status_message":"connection to localhost:9312 failed (errno=10060, msg=A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.)"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As i'm new to Sphinx, i cant get it right away. Can anybody help me to proceed further.</p>
  
  <p>Curiously looking for a solution earlier,</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in Advance,
  Raja.</p>