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I develop site on Windows, but when I tried to add search, I encountered too many problems with Sphinx and Haystack+Xapian. Possible solution is to go to Linux, but I don't want to change my working environment. What search library/server/etc do you recommend for Windows? Which version, repository, tutorials have you used? Maybe you can wrote your own mini-tutorial? I really frustrated with this problem and cannot step forward for several days.

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Finally I got Sphinx to work. Still problems with searching in multiple tables but this is solvable I believe.
Useful links:
How to install and implement Sphinx Search on XAMPP for Windows 7 with MySQL and PHP
Tutorial: Installing on Windows
Installing Sphinx on Windows
In the following snippets paths on my system are used.
Search function in views.py:
def search(request):
from sphinxapi import SphinxClient, SPH_MATCH_ANY, SPH_SORT_RELEVANCE
S = request.GET['search']
client = SphinxClient()
client.SetServer('127.0.0.1', 9312)
#client.SetSelect("*, AVG(price) AS avgprice")
client.SetMatchMode(SPH_MATCH_ANY)
client.SetSortMode(SPH_SORT_RELEVANCE)
client.SetFieldWeights({'header': 20, 'text': 10})
result = client.Query(S, '*')
matches = result["matches"]
ids = [match["id"] for match in matches]
article = {"header": "Search results", "text": ""}
if ids != []:
objects = Main.objects.filter(pk__in = ids)
for object in objects:
url = request.build_absolute_uri(object.get_absolute_url())
article["text"] += "" + object.header + "" + "\n"
ResponseDict = {"articles": [article]}
else:
ResponseDict = {"articles": []}
return render_to_response("index.html", ResponseDict,
context_instance = RequestContext(request))
sphinx.conf (which is in ...\Sphinx\bin folder):
source src1
{
type = pgsql
sql_host = localhost
sql_user = <db user>
sql_pass = <pwd>
sql_db = <db name>
sql_port = 5432
sql_query = \
SELECT id, header, text \
FROM app_main
sql_query_info = SELECT * FROM app_main WHERE id=$id
sql_attr_uint = source_id
}
source src2
{
type = pgsql
sql_host = localhost
sql_user = <db user>
sql_pass = <pwd>
sql_db = <db name>
sql_port = 5432
sql_query = \
SELECT id, header, text \
FROM app_comment
sql_query_info = SELECT * FROM app_comment WHERE id=$id
sql_attr_uint = source_id
}
index test1
{
source = src1
source = src2
path = D:/blizzard/Projects/Python/Web/moz455/app/sphinx/data/test1
docinfo = extern
charset_type = utf-8
}
index testrt
{
type = rt
rt_mem_limit = 32M
path = D:/blizzard/Projects/Python/Web/moz455/app/sphinx/data/testrt
charset_type = utf-8
rt_field = title
rt_field = content
rt_attr_uint = gid
}
indexer
{
mem_limit = 32M
}
searchd
{
listen = 127.0.0.1:9312
log = D:/blizzard/Projects/Python/Web/moz455/app/sphinx/log/searchd.log
query_log = D:/blizzard/Projects/Python/Web/moz455/app/sphinx/log/query.log
read_timeout = 5
max_children = 30
pid_file = D:/blizzard/Projects/Python/Web/moz455/app/sphinx/log/searchd.pid
max_matches = 1000
seamless_rotate = 1
preopen_indexes = 1
unlink_old = 1
workers = threads # for RT to work
binlog_path = D:/blizzard/Projects/Python/Web/moz455/app/sphinx/data
}
Search is available after creating \sphinx, \sphinx\data and \sphinx\log folders in app folder, indexing with command
D:/Old/Sphinx/bin/indexer --config D:/Old/Sphinx/bin/sphinx.conf --all
and starting searchd with command
D:/Old/Sphinx/bin/searchd --config D:/Old/Sphinx/bin/sphinx.conf