Mark H.

You're welcome! Glad I could help.

It was a problem today. IPS said it's fixed now. Logout of the Forum completely, then log back in. That should move you back into the +Active Customers group. If it doesn't work, submit a ticket and they'll straighten it out.

There's another post about it. IPS is looking into the issue.

That's a sentence where it's REALLY important to say "you're" versus "your". :whistle:

Hmmm.... 44 views, no replies. No reps, either. It appears I'm not simply in the minority in wanting this, I'm in the singularity. Guess I'll have to learn how to do it myself. ;)

On a Forum I help Admin (and for which I am the resident tech-head ;)), we often get nested quotes that are more than 3 deep, but almost never more than 6 deep. There are now 3 defined colors for nesting (Green, Purple, Brown). Once you reach a 4th nest depth, it repeats the last color (Brown). As was explained to me, each nesting needs a defined class. Can you increase the nesting classes to 6 colors?? Or, if that's something easily done by the user, post a note somewhere in a non-public area here that details how? Thank you!

You can deploy Sphinx in a multi-user configuration, but you have to have separate installations of the installation-specific files (in ./bin, ./etc, and ./var) for each install of IPB, and make sure each search daemon is running on a different port. I did this on my dedi server. Once I got it all sorted out, it worked great.

Or, if your host gives you cPanel, just upload the ZIP into some directory, then decompress it there. It will create the necessary directory structure right there. Drill down to the "upload" directory, select all files/folders within "upload", then drag and drop them into your forum root. Run the upgrade from the usual location (.../admin/upgrade/index.php) I've done this since I first purchased IPB.

Be sure to get Downloads and CCS while you're at it. After all, you'll want to at some point. Why not immediately? And yeah, I don't recall IPS being a 403c Non-Profit. :whistle:

Using +speed +test *should* work. If it doesn't, then something broke between releases. I know it worked before. EDIT: Yeah, something appears to me wrong. I just tried it, and it did a logical OR with the two words, instead of an AND. I got all results with speed or test.

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Yes, it is. And much the same way as before. Also, by adding htaccess protection (with a strong password) to the directory, I can't see how much more secure it would be to add yet another password to the mix.

The most recent file date in that download was 8/18/09 at 3:57pm, so yeah the page date is wrong.

We cannot help you in this Forum. It's for feedback only. And you need to have an active Support contract to be able to post in the correct forum.

OK, Brandon, I don't get the error in SSH when I run it, so it's working. Beats me why. I'm just happy it IS working. ;)

Yes, I know all that! :D And still it works. I just checked my SQL install. Since I'm not overriding the default value of 3306, by specifying a different port in /etc/my.cnf, mysqld is using port 3306. That's why I asked you if it was *possible* that IPB was somehow grabbing that default value from some place other than that file. Because as I said, in my 2 conf files I have the sql_port (top of file) set to 3312 (or 3313), with the Sphinx port (bottom of file) set to 3312 (or 3313) as well. When I first set up Sphinx, I just set the two port values the same (3312 or 3313) largely due to ignorance. Since it worked, I never bothered to look more closely. If you're correct, it SHOULD throw an error SOMEWHERE along the line there, I would think. And now that my curiosity is piqued I think I'll go change the SQL port to 3306, restart the daemons, reindex, and see if it makes a whit of difference.

OK, now I'm (more) confused. Brandon, this came up before, and either that SQL Port number isn't actually being USED (possible?), or the statement about it being required to stay as-is, isn't completely correct. I have the SQL port set the same as the Sphinx port in the .conf file, in both instances of the search daemon I'm running (one at port 3312, the other at 3313), for two installs on separate Domains, and it works perfectly. I don't believe I ever left it at 3306, to test whether THAT would work, too, but it does work for me as I said. *shrug*

I'd suggest deleting *all* the indexes (delta's, main's, everything) then rerun the primary indexer (the Cron job that runs once per day), then the other cron job (the "every 15 minute" one). And verify that BOTH places which reference a Port in the conf file are changed to 3312. There's one at the top, and one near the bottom.

@Archon Neo: Sphinx allows a very busy Forum to offload its searches, which can make a huge difference *if* your members are using the search feature a lot. @Atari Age: Quite right, a number of our favorite acronyms are only two letters. I set it for 2-character searches as well.

OK, good. Just remember you have to launch the searchd process for each domain using it, and use different ports for each install as well. Took a bit of head-scratching before I got that part just right. :whistle:

Not that I've found. I added that as a caveat more than anything else. ;) It's worked great so far, though it's only been used on test installs. And I did a Sphinx install in a shared configuration for multiple Domains (which DOES work fine) on my dedi , so my configuration, paths, and filenames are a bit different than typical I think.

There's at least one change to that article that hasn't been updated yet. Brandon's been just a little busy lately. ;) Everywhere it says to use forums_search_delta, you have to remove that, and replace it with *TWO* new names: forums_search_posts_delta and forums_search_topics_delta. Once I did this with my install, it worked perfectly.

It also makes us the first Guinea Pigs :whistle: (a role which most of us don't *really* mind).

First, thanks to Charles for providing me with an email address that should be "Code 4". But, I discovered a small "gotcha". My existing Spam Key is (quite properly) tied to my "real" board's Domain. But that can't be used on a test install on a *different* Domain. Can a section be added to the Spam Service Key generation in the Client Area, for entering the URL of your Test Install? I'd just as soon not keep changing my registered URL, although if IPS doesn't care I certainly could do that.

Thank you, Charles!