[BillP]

I am having problems with my Sphinx search.

I set it up in a basic setting and it is working fine, with a 4-character minimum search. I used the settings and hacks to search.php as described earlier in this thread.

Then I changed VBulletin to allow 3 character words and some exceptions for 2-letter words. I changed sphinx.conf to allow 2 letter words.

I reindexed sphinx, and still can search only for 4+ character words.

Some of the complicating factors: Web server is NOT the searchd server. I do my indexing and run searchd on one host, I run the web server on another host.

Any ideas? I can search using "search" from the CLI and find the 3-letter hits, so I think it has something to do with the way sphinx is shoe-horned in to search.php.