sphinxsearchHow do I reindex my SphinxSearch database?

To reindex a SphinxSearch database, you need to run the indexer command. The command requires two parameters: the name of the index you wish to reindex, and the action to take. To reindex an existing index, the action should be --rotate.

For example, the following command will reindex the index named myindex:

indexer --rotate myindex

The output of the command will look something like this:

Sphinx 2.2.11-id64-release (r5654)
Copyright (c) 2001-2017, Andrew Aksyonoff
Copyright (c) 2008-2017, Sphinx Technologies Inc (http://sphinxsearch.com)

using config file '/usr/local/sphinx/etc/sphinx.conf'...
indexing index 'myindex'...
collected 0 docs, 0.0 MB
sorted 0.0 Mhits, 100.0% done
total 0 docs, 0 bytes
total 0.006 sec, 0 bytes/sec, 0.00 docs/sec

The command performs the following operations:

• Reads the Sphinx configuration file (sphinx.conf)
• Identifies the index to be reindexed (myindex)
• Rotates the index (i.e. reindexes it)
• Outputs the results of the operation

For more information about the indexer command, see the Sphinx documentation.

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