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Dmitry
Dmitry

Reputation: 7563

Sphinx variables

I have a lot of filenames in my Sphinx config with name like /home/ubuntu/sites/sitename.dev/data/sphinx/searchd.pid with same path prefix.

Can I separate path /home/ubuntu/sites/sitename.dev/data/sphinx/ from that filename into variable to use it like $path/searchd.pid?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 814

Answers (1)

barryhunter
barryhunter

Reputation: 21091

Its a little known feature, but the config file can actully be a script - such as PHP, perl or even plain old bash. Just uses a classic shebang line - if the first line begins with #! that intpreter is used to execute the script, and the output used as the conf file.

Example for PHP.. 

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php 
  $path = "/home/ubuntu/sites/sitename.dev/";
?>

searchd {
     pid_file = <?php echo $path; ?>/searchd.pid
}

As a side note why are you having multiple pid files? Surely its best to have one single pid file - ie one single instance of searchd. A single instance can serve many indexes. You can use this scripting capablity, to keep seperate 'files' for each index (for easy of use) - which the script consolidates into one file for use.

Upvotes: 4

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