Ok.
I added the index into the config, re-ran the nph-setup.
I have two fields indexed. category and story. Only story was previously indexed. Using MYSQLMAN I looked at the table. There is the main database table, story_ndx, and category_ndx (along with the other stuff,log, sessions, users)
story_ndx has every word that was saved into the story field from every record.
category_ndx has only has the one record that I modified since I added the index.
In MYSQMAN, I open the database, then the table, click on properties then index. It creates some sort of index at the bottom of the column listings in a seperate html table at the bottom of the screen, but nothing happens to category_ndx.
Also at this point I cannot search the "category" field at this point.
in the nph-setup - sub create index, it's supposed to create the *_ndx files.
So what did I miss?