Full text search (using sphinx search) Currently full text search works only with sphinx search engine And builtin PostgreSQL (postgres only >= 8.3???) 5.1 Instructions for Sphinx search setup Sphinx at this time supports only MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to enable this, install sphinx search engine and djangosphinx configure sphinx, sample configuration can be found in sphinx/sphinx.conf file usually goes somewhere in /etc tree build osqa index first time manually % indexer --config /path/to/sphinx.conf --index osqa setup cron job to rebuild index periodically with command your crontab entry may be something like 0 9,15,21 * * * /usr/local/bin/indexer --config /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf --all --rotate >/dev/null 2>&1 adjust it as necessary this one will reindex three times a day at 9am 3pm and 9pm if your forum grows very big ( good luck with that :) you'll need to two search indices one diff index and one main please refer to online sphinx search documentation for the information on the subject http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/ in settings.py look for INSTALLED_APPS and uncomment #'djangosphinx',