The latest from the MySQL community

In this blog article we will show you how to install AutoMySQLBackup on a Linux VPS. AutoMySQLBackup is very useful utility for creating daily, weekly or monthly backups of one or more MySQL databases from one of more MySQL servers. It dumps the databases and compress them in to archives.it comes with many features such as:   Email notification of backups   Backup Compression and Encryption   Configurable backup rotation   Incremental database backups As usual, log in to your server as user root ssh root@IP and execute the following command to make sure that all services ar up to […]

In this article we will walk you through the steps on how to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP-FPM) on a Debian 8 VPS. A LAMP stack is a synonym of LAMP server or LAMP web server. It refers to a set-up which includes Linux, Apache, MySQL (MariaDB) and PHP. REQUIREMENTS We will be using our SSD 1 Linux VPS hosting plan for this tutorial. UPDATE THE SYSTEM Make sure your server is fully up to date using: # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade INSTALL APACHE To install Apache on your Debian 8 server, you need to execute the […]

You can find a ‘Quick Usage Tour’ in our documentation. In this post, I’m going to walk you through that tour and elaborate on a few things. Enjoy! Things to consider I’m assuming you’ve already installed MySQL. Sphinx does not require that you use MySQL, but the following examples do. I’m installing Sphinx on Ubuntu [...]

A Wolf, a Dolphin and a Sphinx walk into a bar… nevermind. We’ll skip the jokes. This post is about using SSL to set up a secure connection between MySQL and Sphinx. Serious stuff! The Idea It simple. We’re going to use Sphinx to index some data from MySQL across a secure connection. So, we’ll [...]

This post walks through some examples of using the geospatial functions provided by MySQL and Sphinx. Enjoy! Getting Started First of all, here are some helpful resources: We wrote about geospatial search with Sphinx in this blog post. It has a more Sphinx-specific focus than this post. Alexander Rubin wrote these helpful articles: “Creating Geo [...]

You probably already know that Sphinx supports MySQL binary network protocol. But, if you haven’t heard– Sphinx can be accessed with the regular ol’ MySQL API. Pretty much any language you use to query MySQL can be used to query Sphinx. So, in this post, to demonstrate how using ‘SphinxQL’ (our subset of SQL) makes [...]

There may come a time when you want to collect some of your emails, put them into a database, and search them with Sphinx. If that time has come, you may enjoy this blog post. It will outline one way to get emails from Gmail into MySQL (with PHP’s IMAP extension) so that they become [...]

With an ear to the interwebs, you’ll hear a few things about Docker. Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. In this blog post, I’m going to outline a very basic example of how to use Sphinx from within a Docker container. What is Docker? This [...]

Here are a few videos those of you who are just getting started with Sphinx may find useful. The first video demonstrates a very simple implementation with Ubuntu, PHP, and MySQL. The second video is also about installing on Ubuntu. And, the last video discusses fulltext query syntax. Check ‘em out. Quick Start with Ubuntu [...]

If you would like to see how to set up autocomplete and correction suggestion with Sphinx, PHP, MySQL, and jQuery, take a look at this. This quick video will walk you through the steps of setting up the autocomplete example that we wrote about a while ago. For details on how the whole process works, go [...]