Searching on Hacks?

[the_wanlorn]

Is there a way to turn on content searching on our dreamhacks? I'm trying to test Bug 1847, and I'm getting the "Sorry, content searching is not configured on this server." error. Is there a way for me to configure this?

If not! Should I upload the patch that I think might possibly work as something for someone else to work off of if they want to do the bug, or to be reviewed, or just let it lie?

Comments

[fu]

Yeah, a lot of this needs root access. Good thought on mocking up data, though... I kinda like that idea, so I ran with it.

I've refactored the search worker, and then uploaded an additional patch to Bug 1847 which just returns as "search" results the latest 20 entries of the journal being searched, suitable for use with things like these...

the_wanlorn: I hope that helps you test your patch!

[the_wanlorn]

You are the actualfax loveliest! Thank you. :D

[the_wanlorn]

I am completely failing at this, apparently? It seems to be failing at:

# if no gearman, bail
my $gc = LJ::gearman_client();
return "Sorry, content searching is not configured on this server.\n"
unless $gc && @LJ::SPHINX_SEARCHD;

I am pretty sure that it's the gearman_client call, but once I found that, I... have no clue how to fake it. Do you have any pointers?

[alierak]

Oh, hmm, forgot about all that stuff. I actually do run gearman in my dreamhack, but it doesn't look like there's a relevant wiki page I can point you to. The one about setting up gearman appears to geared towards production sites and not dreamhacks.

I think what I did was something like this:

cd $LJHOME/cvs/gearman
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$LJHOME
make install

Then I chose a port nobody else was using (but I think the documented procedure probably ought to involve asking sophie to assign one) and started gearmand like this:

$LJHOME/bin/gearmand -p 17103 &

My config-local.pl has:

@GEARMAN_SERVERS = ( '127.0.0.1:17103' );

Let's see, I've also had to do this sort of thing for mogilefs, theschwartz, workers in general, memcached, and probably something else I'm forgetting. I have no doubt that it's possible to do the same for sphinx without needing root privileges, but it does seem like a bit of a bother.

[afuna]

Hmm, yeah seconding the ask the sysad (in this case, sophie).

Let me see if I can get her attention directed towards here!