1. 下载Sphinx最新版 http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html

2. 安装
# tar -zxvf sphinx-0.9.9.tar.gz
# cd sphinx-0.9.9/
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx --with-mysql-includes=/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql/ --with-mysql-libs=/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql --with-iconv
# make && make install

3. 配置
# cd /usr/local/sphinx/etc
# cp sphinx-min.conf.dist joomla.conf
# vi joomla.conf

#
# Minimal Sphinx configuration sample (clean, simple, functional)
#

source joomla_src
{
type = mysql

sql_host = localhost
sql_user = root
sql_pass = 123456
sql_db = joomla
sql_port = 3306 # optional, default is 3306

sql_query = SELECT * FROM jos_content

sql_attr_uint = id
sql_attr_timestamp = created

sql_query_info = SELECT * FROM jos_content WHERE id=$id
}


index joomla_index
{
source = joomla_src
path = /usr/local/sphinx/var/data/joomla_index
docinfo = extern
charset_type = utf-8
}


indexer
{
mem_limit = 32M
}


searchd
{
port = 9312
log = /usr/local/sphinx/var/log/searchd.log
query_log = /usr/local/sphinx/var/log/query.log
read_timeout = 5
max_children = 30
pid_file = /usr/local/sphinx/var/log/searchd.pid
max_matches = 1000
seamless_rotate = 1
preopen_indexes = 0
unlink_old = 1
}
保存退出

4. 建立索引
# /usr/local/sphinx/bin/indexer --config joomla.conf --all joomla_index

5. 启动sphinx后台服务
# /usr/local/sphinx/bin/searchd -c /usr/local/sphinx/etc/joomla.conf -i joomla_index &

6. 测试
#/usr/local/php/bin/php-cgi test.php -h localhost -p 9312 -i joomla_index -ph title
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.10
Content-type: text/html

Query 'title ' retrieved 16 of 16 matches in 0.001 sec.
Query stats:
'title' found 61 times in 16 documents

Matches:
1. doc_id=44, weight=2, created=1970-01-01 07:33:27
2. doc_id=1, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
3. doc_id=4, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
4. doc_id=5, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
5. doc_id=10, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
6. doc_id=11, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
7. doc_id=20, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
8. doc_id=21, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
9. doc_id=24, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
10. doc_id=25, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
11. doc_id=26, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
12. doc_id=27, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
13. doc_id=28, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
14. doc_id=30, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
15. doc_id=38, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:28
16. doc_id=45, weight=1, created=1970-01-01 07:33:27

原文链接: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4b93170a0100mbsi.html