Sphinx is a full-text search engine. Generally, it is a standalone search engine application, built for provide fast, effective and relevant full-text searching to other 3rd parties applications. Sphinx was designed well for integration with SQL databases and scripting languages like php, ruby, etc … Read more here sphinxsearch.com
Installation Sphinx
Of course you can find a lot of instructions howto install sphinx on Freebsd on the web, but I’ve decided just create my version which is clear of course and 100% workable :) (Actually, the truth is – I just dont want to forget how to install sphinx in future as well :) )
Anyway, lets start …