Help with Sphider search engine

Jimbob · 03-21-2008, 01:05 PM

Hi,

I'm looking to learn more about adding a search engine to website and the one that seems to be highly recommended is Sphider. It says its easy to install but I'm afraid I don't find it so. I'm just starting to learn PHP and MySQL but apparently you don't need to know much of that to be able to install it, but I am struggling. Saying things like "change $database, $mysql_user, $mysql_password and $mysql_host to correct values" in a certain file doesn't really help alot. What are the correct values? If anyone can help or knows of an idiot's guide of how to get this thing up and running I'd be very grateful.

Thanks in advance,

Jimbob

Izzmo · 03-21-2008, 01:21 PM

You don't need to change "$database, $mysql_user, $mysql_password and $mysql_host", you need to change the value, if that makes sense.

Each of those variables are what connects Sphider to your database. So, you need to know how, if you haven't done so already, setup a database and a user (if you can) to connect to it. Then edit the values of the variables with your new database and usernames.

$mysql_host would be localhost (if you are not using a database from another server/site)

Jimbob · 03-24-2008, 04:32 AM

Thanks for the reply Izzmo. I think I understand about changing the values of the variables and setting up a database but I'm not sure what you mean by setting up a user. Is this just a username to access the database? If so, I think I've already done that. Unfortunately, there's no access to setting up a MySQL database with my hosting account, so can all this be done using Apache on my own computer so that I can test it before upgrading my account?

Thanks again for any help,

Jimbob

Izzmo · 03-26-2008, 01:06 PM

Are you trying to run a server, or environment, on your own machine? If so, you need to install phpMyAdmin, so you can access the MySQL databases. From there, you would just need to input the username and pass that you are using to login to phpMyAdmin, which would be username: root password: xxxxxxxxx. Or you can setup a new username if you as well.

If you are not setting up a server environment on your own machine, what hosting software is installed on your server? Most common ones are cPanel and Plesk, and of course custom interfaces.

Jimbob · 03-29-2008, 01:31 AM

Thanks again Izzmo. I'm up and running now. I tried using Xampp (which I found worked better than Wamp) and did a search on the net for Xampp/Sphider and found this tutorial (http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Teach...r/sphider.html) which helped immensely. Sphider works perfectly on my site and all on my local machine using Xampp. I'm really pleased.

Thanks again for your time,

Jimbob

Izzmo · 03-18-2009, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbob

Thanks again Izzmo. I'm up and running now. I tried using Xampp (which I found worked better than Wamp) and did a search on the net for Xampp/Sphider and found this tutorial (http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Teach...r/sphider.html) which helped immensely. Sphider works perfectly on my site and all on my local machine using Xampp. I'm really pleased.

Thanks again for your time,

Jimbob

You are most welcome!

intersol · 03-18-2009, 04:48 AM

Just recently I started using Sphider on my website, and being a total new commer to this field I was most surprised that it worked first time. I was up and running in about 30 minutes!

The only issue I have is that Indexing always stops after about 300 urls, but when I restart it continues where it left off.

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