$ wget http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.7.tar.gz

$ tar xzf sphinx-0.9.7.tar.gz

$ cd sphinx-0.9.7

 ./configure --prefix=/usr

checking build environment
--------------------------

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

configuring Sphinx
------------------

checking whether to compile with MySQL support... (cached) yes
checking whether to compile with PostgreSQL support... (cached) no
checking MySQL includes... (cached) /usr/include/mysql
checking MySQL libraries... (cached) /usr/lib/mysql


$ make 
$ make install 

$ mkdir /var/log/sphinx
$ mkdir /var/data/sphinx 

$ touch /etc/sphinx.conf
$ vi /etc/sphinx.conf

and put the content of attached sphinx.conf.txt replace user, password, and forum_db
 

mysql> CREATE TABLE sphinx_counter 
          (counter_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,       
           max_doc_id INTEGER NOT NULL );

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

$ indexer --config /etc/sphinx.conf --all
Sphinx 0.9.7
Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file '/etc/sphinx.conf'...
indexing index 'post'...
collected 3570597 docs, 1008.4 MB
sorted 91.5 Mhits, 100.0% done
total 3570597 docs, 1008376598 bytes
total 351.204 sec, 2871197.49 bytes/sec, 10166.73 docs/sec
indexing index 'postdelta'...
collected 7 docs, 0.0 MB
sorted 0.0 Mhits, 100.0% done
total 7 docs, 1133 bytes
total 0.014 sec, 79778.85 bytes/sec, 492.90 docs/sec
indexing index 'thread'...
collected 222712 docs, 6.8 MB
sorted 0.7 Mhits, 100.0% done
total 222712 docs, 6778203 bytes
total 2.806 sec, 2415407.71 bytes/sec, 79363.26 docs/sec
indexing index 'threaddelta'...
collected 0 docs, 0.0 MB
total 0 docs, 0 bytes
total 0.010 sec, 0.00 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec
distributed index 'fulltext' can not be directly indexed; skipping.
distributed index 'threadtitles' can not be directly indexed; skipping.

$ search bmwfaq.com --config /etc/sphinx.conf
Sphinx 0.9.7
Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Andrew Aksyonoff

index 'post': query 'bmwfaq.com ': returned 1000 matches of 63297 total in 0.012 sec

displaying matches:
1. document=309409, weight=2, forumid=7, threadid=26258, userid=3222, postuserid=3222, dateline=Tue Nov  2 16:51:19 2004
2. document=309420, weight=2, forumid=27, threadid=26260, userid=3222, postuserid=3222, dateline=Tue Nov  2 16:51:19 2004

... 

$ searchd --config /etc/sphinx.conf
Sphinx 0.9.7
Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file '/etc/sphinx.conf'...

and rotate postdelta and threaddelta
$ indexer --config /etc/sphinx.conf --rotate postdelta threaddelta
Sphinx 0.9.7
Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file '/etc/sphinx.conf'...
indexing index 'postdelta'...
collected 51 docs, 0.0 MB
sorted 0.0 Mhits, 100.0% done
total 51 docs, 14809 bytes
total 0.010 sec, 1480900.03 bytes/sec, 5100.00 docs/sec
indexing index 'threaddelta'...
collected 4 docs, 0.0 MB
sorted 0.0 Mhits, 100.0% done
total 4 docs, 125 bytes
total 0.010 sec, 12500.00 bytes/sec, 400.00 docs/sec
rotating indices: succesfully sent SIGHUP to searchd (pid=29995).

$ cd /usr/local/etc
$ vi rotate.sh (with this content)
#!/bin/sh

LOCKFILE=/var/lock/sphinx.cron.lock

[ -f $LOCKFILE ] && exit 0

trap "{ rm -f $LOCKFILE ; exit 255; }" EXIT

touch $LOCKFILE

indexer --config /etc/sphinx.conf --rotate postdelta threaddelta

$ vi reindex.sh (with this content)
#!/bin/sh

LOCKFILE=/var/lock/sphinx.cron.lock

[ -f $LOCKFILE ] && exit 0

trap "{ rm -f $LOCKFILE ; exit 255; }" EXIT

touch $LOCKFILE

indexer --all --rotate --config /etc/sphinx.conf  >/dev/null 2>&1

*/20 * * * * root run-parts /usr/local/etc/rotate.sh;
59 4 * * * root /usr/local/etc/reindex.sh;