This image borrows heavily from Leo Di Donato work at leodido/dockerfiles. The The updates to the image was done to facilitate the following:

1. Temporary fix for the issue of libstemmer that changed the name of the non-UTF8 Hungarian source files.
2. Flip the order of EXPOSEd ports for convenient linking.
3. Mount the VOLUMEs to expose the corresponding directories.
4. By default, specify a CMD to run the indexall.sh script. It can be overriding at runtime.

Version: 2.1.9

You can read here the official changelog.

A Sphinx Search instance builded from source.

Supports:

• stemming (via libstemmer, link)

• xml (with expat and iconv)

• postgresql

• mysql

• odbc

• regular expression filter (via RE2 engine, link)

• lemmatization

  • /var/diz/sphinx/ru.pak (russian dict)

• 9312 for client connections

• 9306 for SQL connections

This image provides some directories for your configurations:

• /var/idx/sphinx

• /var/log/sphinx

• /var/lib/sphinx

• /var/run/sphinx

• /var/diz/sphinx

• searchd.sh, to start searchd in the foreground (needed also for real-time indexes)
• indexall.sh, to index all the plain indexes (i.e., indexer --all) defined in the configuration

The simplest use case is to start a Sphinx Search container, attach to it and do whatever you want with it:

docker run -i -t leodido/sphinxsearch /bin/bash

Assume that we want to index our documents into some real-time indexes.

Given a Sphinx Search configuration file (e.g., sphinx.conf) in our current directory (i.e., $PWD), we have to share its content with the container using docker option -v.

We also want to link to exposed 9306 port to query Sphinx Search from the host machine.

So, the command to run a daemonized instance of this container is:

SS=$(docker run -i -t -v $PWD:/usr/local/etc -p 9306 -d leodido/sphinxsearch ./searchd.sh)

Now we want to see to which host address it has been linked:

docker port $SS 9306

And eventually try to connect to it:

mysql -h 0.0.0.0 -P 49174

We can now index documents into our Sphinx Search container or perform queries against it.

Assume that we want to index our documents into some plain indexes.

We need:

1. the data source files (e.g. XML files structured as demanded by the Sphinx Search's xmlpipe2 driver)

2. a valid Sphinx Search configuration file that defines our plain indexes and their sources

3. a way to querying Sphinx Search from the host machine (e.g., using IP 127.0.0.1 and port 9306)

So, assuming that in our current directory (i.e., $PWD) we have these files, we run a daemonized instance of Sphinx Search as follow:

docker run -i -t -v $PWD:/usr/local/etc -p 127.0.0.1:9306:9306 -d leodido/sphinxsearch ./indexall.sh

This way we have indexed our documents and started serving queries.

Again, if you want to query from the host machine:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 9306