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authorZach Copley <zach@status.net>2009-11-19 20:12:46 -0800
committerZach Copley <zach@status.net>2009-11-19 20:12:46 -0800
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* 0.9-release: (874 commits) Removed call to NewDirectMessage() until IE return is fixed i.e., Don't show flag user button your own profile Fixed HXR response for flag user Using the right form class name Using common_redirect Left a form_data class of a <ul> in the user admin panel Added validation to fields in user admin panel Added a user admin panel Added mobile logos for default and identica themes Changed gif to png Changed this to action. THANKS zach! Doing content negotiation only once Add execute bit to pingqueuehandler Localisation updates for !StatusNet from !translatewiki.net Use the browser's geolocation API to set the location on the notice form Add geometa library, and include it. Add location form elements to the noticeform, and save their values on submission Use the $user object nickname, as login name doesnt have to == nickname anymore with plugins such as ldap/etc Revert "Re added NICKNAME_FMT constant to router.php." Moved most path and server settings to a new paths admin panel ... Conflicts: js/util.js locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/statusnet.mo locale/mk_MK/LC_MESSAGES/statusnet.mo locale/mk_MK/LC_MESSAGES/statusnet.po locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/statusnet.mo locale/vi_VN/LC_MESSAGES/statusnet.mo plugins/InfiniteScroll/infinitescroll.js plugins/Realtime/realtimeupdate.js
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+You can get a significant boost in performance using Sphinx Search
+instead of your database server to search for users and notices.
+<http://sphinxsearch.com/>.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+In StatusNet's configuration, you can adjust the following settings
+under 'sphinx':
+
+enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false.
+server: a string with the hostname of the sphinx server.
+port: an integer with the port number of the sphinx server.
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+To use a Sphinx server to search users and notices, you also need
+to install, compile and enable the sphinx pecl extension for php on the
+client side, which itself depends on the sphinx development files.
+"pecl install sphinx" should take care of that. Add "extension=sphinx.so"
+to your php.ini and reload apache to enable it.
+
+You can update your MySQL or Postgresql databases to drop their fulltext
+search indexes, since they're now provided by sphinx.
+
+
+You will also need a Sphinx server to serve the search queries.
+
+On the sphinx server side, a script reads the main database and build
+the keyword index. A cron job reads the database and keeps the sphinx
+indexes up to date. scripts/sphinx-cron.sh should be called by cron
+every 5 minutes, for example. scripts/sphinx.sh is an init.d script
+to start and stop the sphinx search daemon.
+
+
+Server configuration
+--------------------
+scripts/gen_config.php can generate a sphinx.conf file listing MySQL
+data sources for your databases. You may need to tweak paths afterwards.
+
+ $ plugins/SphinxSearch/scripts/gen_config.php > sphinx.conf
+
+If you wish, you can build a full config yourself based on sphinx.conf.sample