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Originally Posted by ALanJay

Having researched this frther I have found that although searchd and test.php work fine for my internal database (DS) when I try to use test.php against the hybrid index I get:

Query failed: failed to read searchd response (status=0, ver=263, len=-2147483487, read=0).

My guess this is possibly some kind of configuration issue with the sphinx.conf for the files and index though it seems to index the file perfectly.

Anyone have any ideas?

As Orban says, that sounds like the 64bit issue. I was hoping the latest sphinx update fixed it (the changelog seemed to indicate it had), but I still get that error with php 5.2.1. I had to revert back to 5.2.0.

The latest sphinx and php 5.2.0 works fine with 64bit.