thinking sphinx on shared hosting

[rtacconi]

Hi,

I was thinking to provide shared hosting for Rails and I am wondering how I could provide thinking sphinx on a shared host. I think it is not possible since Sphinx does not have any authentication and every application needs its own

[Pat Allan]

I've had some experience with this, as I'm providing hosted Sphinx instances via Flying Sphinx. Firstly, you'll want to make sure every client gets Sphinx on a unique port. And yes, authentication would be ideal - and so I patched Sphinx to provide this, via the searchd setting client_key.

searchd
{
# …
client_key = secret_auth_key_value
}

Both Riddle and Thinking Sphinx allow for the use of this setting too. Check out the flying-sphinx source:
https://github.com/flying-sphinx/flying-sphinx/blob/master/lib/flying_sphinx/railtie.rb#L12

And my fork of Sphinx with the patch applied against various versions (though not 2.0.5 yet) can be found here - see different branches for different versions:
https://github.com/freelancing-god/sphinx/tree/client_key

All that said - if you would rather let me handle Sphinx hosting, we could possibly sort something out for your clients to use Flying Sphinx. Perhaps best to discuss that off-list if you're interested. If not, no worries :)

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Pat

On 16/08/2012, at 3:17 PM, rtacconi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was thinking to provide shared hosting for Rails and I am wondering how I could provide thinking sphinx on a shared host. I think it is not possible since Sphinx does not have any authentication and every application needs its own
>
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