IntraACL+Cirrus or Sphinx Search

[mukulagrawal78]

I have a quick question.
If I use Cirrus search engine on a wiki with IntraACL, would I need to patch Cirrus?
I prefer Cirrus over Sphinx, provided it works with IntraACL. Pls help.

Alternatively, I see that you have Sphinx in your distribution of extensions. I don't see any installation instructions. I am assuming your git repository corresponds only to the "extension" piece of the setupI am guessing I will need to separately install the Sphinx Search Engine from linux repositories and then install your extension separately, is that right? Can I follow instruction provided by mediawiki here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch.

[vitalif]

Yes, every MediaWiki extension usually does direct DB access and should be patched in order to support page-level read permissions. Maybe CirrusSearch already does it, I don't know (it's sufficient to use the standard userCan('read') hook).

Installation instructions for our sphinx extension are here: http://wiki.4intra.net/SphinxSearchEngine

[vitalif]

Ooops. It seems instructions are missing

[vitalif]

Anyway it's easy. You just install Sphinx, add a config similar to provided sphinx.conf, include SphinxSearchEngine.php and set connection parameters (see inside it). Then you call php extensions/SphinxSearchEngine/rebuild-sphinx.php --conf LocalSettings.php, that's all.

[mukulagrawal78]

Vitalif: Can you be clear what you mean by the "connection parameters"? I dont see any connection parameters either in the sphinx.conf or in the SphinxSearchEngine.php.

I am getting a whe biunch of warning like below. I am on MW 1.27.

Warning: SphinxQLClient::query(): Couldn't fetch mysqli in /var/lib/wiki/extensions/SphinxSearchEngine/SphinxSearchEngine_class.phon line 954
PHP Warning: mysqli::close(): Couldn't fetch mysqli in /var/lib/wiki/extensions/SphinxSearchEngine/SphinxSearchEngine_class.php oline 901

[vitalif]

Host/port/socket
(Sphinx uses MySQL protocol)