Question

I want to connect to SphinxQL on my production server to execute sphinx queries on mysql database,

Please note I ran the following commands in the production server terminal(Ubuntu 10.04) by connecting to it remotely.

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 9312

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 9306

mysql -h <<my_production_ip_address>> -P 9312

mysql -h <<my_production_ip_address>> -P 9306

Tried changing the bind_address in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to my_production_ip_address.

I want to run a sphinx query on my production server for debugging.

Please help.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Please make sure you have the following line in sphinx configuration file (usually sphinx.conf) under searchd {…} section:

listen = 9306:mysql41

if not, then please add it and restart Sphinx.

Please also make sure that:

1. Sphinx daemon (searchd) is up and running
2. Sphinx is listening port 9306 (run netstat -anp | grep LIST )
3. Firewall is configured to pass network connection to port 9306 (it usually does)

Hope this helps.