I wish I could be some help here - but I've never used TS on Windows. I know others have though - but perhaps they don't regularly haunt this list. Perhaps ask on Stack Overflow as well?
-- Pat On 23/06/2011, at 4:02 PM, J nirty wrote: > some update on the issue but problem still persists > > 1. installed thinking sphinx first using gem > 2. downloaded the sphinx search engine and put them in the C drive named as > like c:\sphinx> > 3. added indexes to the model on RoR . > 4. Indexed it using "rake ts:index" and it generated the " > development.sphinx.conf ". > 5. Then I tried installing sphinx daemon from the command prompt with the > config file as "development.sphinx.conf" > 6. When I tried " rake ts:start" , It still hangs... and the daemon will not > start. so I exited and > 7. started the searchd service manually from services.msc. Now the search > daemon works fine and I can use the RoR to search. > > But the problem of starting service from RoR still persists it hangs without > giving any error or success message on the console. > > Any suggestions will be greately helpful. > > Thank you, > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:18 PM, J nirty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am trying to install sphinx on Windows 7 to be used with RoR 3. > > I Installed Sphinx 2.0.1, By extracting it to the path c:\sphinx and > installed it by c:\sphinx\bin>searchd --install ( Tried with and > without default config file, sphinx.conf that comes with sphinx download ) > > and thinking-sphinx version 2.0.5 using ruby Gem > > I did make the changes in the model specifying Indexes and Attrributes. > > I also included sphinx.yml file in the config folder , with following > configurations > development: > port: 9312 > bin_path: "c:/sphinx/bin" > > > When I run rake ts:index, -- It completes the task with the following output: > > using config file 'C:/Users/Wox/My Documents/Aptana Studio 3 > Workspace/nirty17/config/development.sphinx.conf'... > indexing index 'ad_core'... > collected 8 docs, 0.0 MB > sorted 0.0 Mhits, 100.0% done > total 8 docs, 90 bytes > total 0.037 sec, 2373 bytes/sec, 210.98 docs/sec > distributed index 'ad' can not be directly indexed; skipping. > total 5 reads, 0.000 sec, 0.1 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg > total 10 writes, 0.000 sec, 0.1 kb/call avg, 0.0 msec/call avg > > but when I try to start by rake ts:start , the console hangs and stops > without giving any errors or outputs. > > and Sometimes when I tried It actually creates three Log files in the RoR > project folder with the names > binlog.001 > binlog.lock > binlog.meta > with weird characters in it . sometimes the binlog.lock shows " The portion > of the file may be locked by some other process" and some times it does not. > > And most times these files are not created but the console just hangs up with > out giving any message when I try to start. > > I also tried starting the sphinx in services.msc manually, but it gives the > "error :1607 termination expected unexpectedly" > > I have no Idea what the error might be and any suggestions and help is > greatly appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Note: > I tried with different versions of both Sphinx, and thinking sphinx, and on > many computers with windows 7 on it. I also tried changing the file > permissions of the installed Sphinx folder. > I had a problem earlier with indexing which said bin_path not found and I > fixed it by setting up sphinx.yml file in the config folder. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thinking Sphinx" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en.
