Aram apache usually has a root and www instance.

Firstly if you go "cat /etc/passwd" is there no www-data listed?

Hi Aram

Something is not correct with your VPS setup. Although your sphinx should still work. Make sure of the following.

Firstly get to a point where you can run Sphinx/reindex in SS - not manually in terminal (set permissions on pid file etc to chmod 777 to do this).

Check what user the searchd process gets loaded as "ps axu".

Set the files in /usr/local/bin relating to Sphinx to the user. Set the files in /tmp/silver...etc to the same user.

You should now get no permission errors and be able to reindex receiving an ok reply.

Hi Aram,

Does it not initiate the process under a different user when you try to search, have you checked.

I just copied the SS search code to my controller and changed the references in it to SphinxSearch and got it working that way.

Does your idxs get created now?

Hi again.

@aram, Strange errors. WARNING: index 'BaseIdx': key 'path' not found' => this one is normal, as the base index is not a real index.
The others I haven't seen before.

Can you try something for me: in sphinx/code/Sphinx.php, after line 459, add this:
<code>echo $indexingOutput</code>

In case you're on a different revision and I've got the line wrong, its in the function reindex, and the echo should be on the line after this code:
<code>
      if (!SapphireTest::is_running_test())
         $indexingOutput = `{$this->bin('indexer')} --config {$this->VARPath}/sphinx.conf $rotate $idxlist &> /dev/stdout`;
</code>

There is an issue with reindex, as it's error detection is poor and something on my short term list to fix. Putting in the echo will give you the raw output of the indexer, which under some circumstances will show problems, when reindex() would otherwise just return "ok". (it's a laid-back kinda function )

If you could post the results, that would be good.

Mark