FATAL: no indexes found in config file - sphinx

Question

I am trying to run the indexer of my sphinx server.
This is the command I use (through root access) to start the indexing:
indexer --all
When I use the command, this is the reponse I get:
Sphinx 2.1.9-id64-release (rel21-r4761)
Copyright (c) 2001-2014, Andrew Aksyonoff
Copyright (c) 2008-2014, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)
using config file '/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf'...
FATAL: no indexes found in config file '/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf'
This is the sphinx.conf file that is located in /etc/sphinxsearch/
#############################################################################
## indexer settings
#############################################################################
indexer
{
# memory limit, in bytes, kiloytes (16384K) or megabytes (256M)
# optional, default is 32M, max is 2047M, recommended is 256M to 1024M
mem_limit = 1024M
}
#############################################################################
## searchd settings
#############################################################################
searchd
{
listen = 127.0.0.1:9312
listen = 127.0.0.1:9306:mysql41
log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/searchd.log
query_log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/query.log
read_timeout = 5
client_timeout = 300
max_children = 30
pid_file = /var/log/sphinxsearch/searchd.pid
max_matches = 1000
seamless_rotate = 1
preopen_indexes = 1
unlink_old = 1
mva_updates_pool = 1M
max_packet_size = 8M
max_filters = 256
max_filter_values = 4096
workers = threads # for RT to work
}
index myindex
{
type = rt
path = /var/www/vhosts/user/sphinx/myindex
rt_field = description
rt_field = searchcode
rt_field = weight
rt_field = productid
rt_attr_uint = stockproduct
rt_attr_uint = instock
charset_type = utf-8
min_infix_len = 3
enable_star = 1
expand_keywords = 1
dict = keywords
}
# --eof--
Can someone help me with resolving this error?
FATAL: no indexes found in config file '/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf

Answer 1

the indexer command only works on traditional disk-index. Not real time indexes.
Because indexer doesn't do anything with type=rt it doesnt 'see' them, hence your config file has no indexes to index.
I guess in an ideal world it would say 'no plain indexes found' or similar to clarify its ignoring rt (same as it ignores distributed)

Answer 2

All you have to do is put sphinx.conf file inside bin folder, which mean it will be inside this path for example "etc/sphinxsearch/bin/sphinx.conf".