[ALanJay]

Originally Posted by amcd

ALanJay, I am running sphinx without problems on FreeBSD amd64. If you have any specific questions about versions etc, maybe I can help.

Thanks amcd,

Well most of my FreeBSD issues have been solved - compilation and running all see fine.

I have changed sphinxapi.php to include the sugested:

function unpack31($f,$s)
{
$arr=unpack($f,$s);
foreach($arr as $k=>$v) {
$b = sprintf("%b", $v);
if(strlen($b) == 64){
$arr[$k]=bindec(substr($b, 33));
}
}
return $arr;
}


I have made the changes to sphix.conf for I think for the changes to the column settings ie

sql_group_column = forumid
sql_group_column = threadid
sql_group_column = userid
sql_group_column = postuserid
sql_date_column = dateline
sql_query_post =

I think the SQL stuff is unchanged from 0.9.6 to 0.9.7 and still have for the Post Index:

        sql_query_pre           = REPLACE INTO spy_forum.sph_counter SELECT 1, MAX(postid) FROM post
        sql_query_range         = SELECT MIN(postid), MAX(postid) FROM post
        sql_range_step          = 1000
        sql_query = \
                SELECT postid, forumid, post.threadid as threadid, IF(post.userid=0,99999999,post.userid) AS userid, IF(postuserid=0,99999999,postuserid) AS postuserid, p
ost.title, pagetext, post.dateline \
                FROM post \
                INNER JOIN thread AS thread ON(thread.threadid = post.threadid) \
                WHERE post.visible = 1 AND postid >= $start AND postid <= $end \
                        AND postid <= ( SELECT max_doc_id FROM spy_forum.sph_counter WHERE counter_id = 1 );

and the delta

        sql_query_pre           =
        sql_query_range         = SELECT ( SELECT max_doc_id FROM spy_forum.sph_counter WHERE counter_id = 1 ), MAX(postid) FROM post
        sql_range_step          = 1000
        sql_query = \
                SELECT postid, forumid, post.threadid as threadid, IF(post.userid=0,99999999,post.userid) AS userid, IF(postuserid=0,99999999,postuserid) AS postuserid, p
ost.title, pagetext, post.dateline \
                FROM post \
                INNER JOIN thread AS thread ON(thread.threadid = post.threadid) \
                WHERE post.visible = 1 AND postid >= $start AND postid <= $end \
                        AND postid > ( SELECT max_doc_id FROM spy_forum.sph_counter WHERE counter_id = 1 );

index DSFullTextPostIndex
{
type = distributed
local = DSPostIndex
local = DSPostIndexDELTA
}


it all seems to work ok when I create the indexes from scratch but the test.php and vB search.php always give 0 results.

ie

php ./xx-test-search.php -i DSFullTextPostIndex "digital tv"
Query 'digital tv ' retrieved 0 of 0 matches in 0.000 sec.
Query stats:
'digital' found 0 times in 0 documents
'tv' found 0 times in 0 documents

yet when I use my internal database it all works fine:

php ./xx-test-search.php -i DSramsIndex "digital tv"
Query 'digital tv ' retrieved 1000 of 1729 matches in 0.005 sec.
Query stats:
'digital' found 20655 times in 4243 documents
'tv' found 24047 times in 5666 documents
Matches:
1. doc_id=4744, weight=208, date=2002-01-20 22:44:53
2. doc_id=4868, weight=208, date=2002-01-31 20:01:25

This would imply some sort of error with the creating of the vBulletin index in differences between the 3.0 stream I was previously using and the 3.6 stream of the new test site?

Any thoughts?