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Does order matter when installing Sphinx Search. If mysql was already installed on my server, can I still install sphinx after or do I have to do them together or Sphinx before?

andrewk
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It's more than just a PHP class... there's a search daemon and indexer that have to run on the server as well - but yes - it's often installed after mysql is already installed.

philfreo
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If you're going to use the SphinxSE engine in MySQL, you will need to recompile MySQL to include the engine.

Refer to this part of the manual: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.9.html#sphinxse-mysql50. We didn't use the SphinxSE engine, we just used the PHP api client, and that we installed after having Apache/PHP/MySQL installed.

You will need to compile Sphinx yourself, but the method is given in that manual link I provided.

ajacian81
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Yes, definitely you can install Sphinx after all. The typical Sphinx client API - it's just a PHP class.

Vadim
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