diff --git a/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_sphinx.php b/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
index 3bdce5dfb9..e1052ee7da 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ class phpbb_search_fulltext_sphinx
 		}
 
 		// Check if directory paths have been filled
-		if (!$this->config['fulltext_sphinx_data_path'] || !$this->config['fulltext_sphinx_config_path'])
+		if (!$this->config['fulltext_sphinx_data_path'])
 		{
 			$this->config_file_data = $this->user->lang('FULLTEXT_SPHINX_NO_CONFIG_DATA');
 			return false;
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ class phpbb_search_fulltext_sphinx
 				array('source',						'source_phpbb_' . $this->id . '_main'),
 				array('docinfo',					'extern'),
 				array('morphology',					'none'),
-				array('stopwords',					$this->config['fulltext_sphinx_stopwords'] ? $this->config['fulltext_sphinx_config_path'] . 'sphinx_stopwords.txt' : ''),
+				array('stopwords',					''),
 				array('min_word_len',				'2'),
 				array('charset_type',				'utf-8'),
 				array('charset_table',				'U+FF10..U+FF19->0..9, 0..9, U+FF41..U+FF5A->a..z, U+FF21..U+FF3A->a..z, A..Z->a..z, a..z, U+0149, U+017F, U+0138, U+00DF, U+00FF, U+00C0..U+00D6->U+00E0..U+00F6, U+00E0..U+00F6, U+00D8..U+00DE->U+00F8..U+00FE, U+00F8..U+00FE, U+0100->U+0101, U+0101, U+0102->U+0103, U+0103, U+0104->U+0105, U+0105, U+0106->U+0107, U+0107, U+0108->U+0109, U+0109, U+010A->U+010B, U+010B, U+010C->U+010D, U+010D, U+010E->U+010F, U+010F, U+0110->U+0111, U+0111, U+0112->U+0113, U+0113, U+0114->U+0115, U+0115, U+0116->U+0117, U+0117, U+0118->U+0119, U+0119, U+011A->U+011B, U+011B, U+011C->U+011D, U+011D, U+011E->U+011F, U+011F, U+0130->U+0131, U+0131, U+0132->U+0133, U+0133, U+0134->U+0135, U+0135, U+0136->U+0137, U+0137, U+0139->U+013A, U+013A, U+013B->U+013C, U+013C, U+013D->U+013E, U+013E, U+013F->U+0140, U+0140, U+0141->U+0142, U+0142, U+0143->U+0144, U+0144, U+0145->U+0146, U+0146, U+0147->U+0148, U+0148, U+014A->U+014B, U+014B, U+014C->U+014D, U+014D, U+014E->U+014F, U+014F, U+0150->U+0151, U+0151, U+0152->U+0153, U+0153, U+0154->U+0155, U+0155, U+0156->U+0157, U+0157, U+0158->U+0159, U+0159, U+015A->U+015B, U+015B, U+015C->U+015D, U+015D, U+015E->U+015F, U+015F, U+0160->U+0161, U+0161, U+0162->U+0163, U+0163, U+0164->U+0165, U+0165, U+0166->U+0167, U+0167, U+0168->U+0169, U+0169, U+016A->U+016B, U+016B, U+016C->U+016D, U+016D, U+016E->U+016F, U+016F, U+0170->U+0171, U+0171, U+0172->U+0173, U+0173, U+0174->U+0175, U+0175, U+0176->U+0177, U+0177, U+0178->U+00FF, U+00FF, U+0179->U+017A, U+017A, U+017B->U+017C, U+017C, U+017D->U+017E, U+017E, U+0410..U+042F->U+0430..U+044F, U+0430..U+044F, U+4E00..U+9FFF'),
@@ -757,28 +757,18 @@ class phpbb_search_fulltext_sphinx
 	function acp()
 	{
 		$config_vars = array(
-			'fulltext_sphinx_config_path' => 'string',
 			'fulltext_sphinx_data_path' => 'string',
 			'fulltext_sphinx_host' => 'string',
 			'fulltext_sphinx_port' => 'int',
-			'fulltext_sphinx_stopwords'	=> 'bool',
 			'fulltext_sphinx_indexer_mem_limit' => 'int',
 		);
 
 		$tpl = '
 		<span class="error">' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIGURE']. '</span>
-		<dl>
-			<dt><label for="fulltext_sphinx_config_path">' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIG_PATH'] . ':</label><br /><span>' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIG_PATH_EXPLAIN'] . '</span></dt>
-			<dd><input id="fulltext_sphinx_config_path" type="text" size="40" maxlength="255" name="config[fulltext_sphinx_config_path]" value="' . $this->config['fulltext_sphinx_config_path'] . '" /></dd>
-		</dl>
 		<dl>
 			<dt><label for="fulltext_sphinx_data_path">' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_DATA_PATH'] . ':</label><br /><span>' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_DATA_PATH_EXPLAIN'] . '</span></dt>
 			<dd><input id="fulltext_sphinx_data_path" type="text" size="40" maxlength="255" name="config[fulltext_sphinx_data_path]" value="' . $this->config['fulltext_sphinx_data_path'] . '" /></dd>
 		</dl>
-		<dl>
-			<dt><label for="fulltext_sphinx_stopwords">' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_STOPWORDS_FILE'] . ':</label><br /><span>' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_STOPWORDS_FILE_EXPLAIN'] . '</span></dt>
-			<dd><label><input type="radio" id="fulltext_sphinx_stopwords" name="config[fulltext_sphinx_stopwords]" value="1"' . (($this->config['fulltext_sphinx_stopwords']) ? ' checked="checked"' : '') . ' class="radio" /> ' . $this->user->lang['YES'] . '</label><label><input type="radio" name="config[fulltext_sphinx_stopwords]" value="0"' . ((!$this->config['fulltext_sphinx_stopwords']) ? ' checked="checked"' : '') . ' class="radio" /> ' . $this->user->lang['NO'] . '</label></dd>
-		</dl>
 		<dl>
 			<dt><label for="fulltext_sphinx_host">' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_HOST'] . ':</label><br /><span>' . $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_HOST_EXPLAIN'] . '</span></dt>
 			<dd><input id="fulltext_sphinx_host" type="text" size="40" maxlength="255" name="config[fulltext_sphinx_host]" value="' . $this->config['fulltext_sphinx_host'] . '" /></dd>
diff --git a/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php b/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
index 99fbbac07e..6d9201fb11 100644
--- a/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
+++ b/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ $lang = array_merge($lang, array(
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_MIN_WORD_LEN_EXPLAIN'			=> 'Words with at least this many characters will be included in the query to the database.',
 	'FULLTEXT_POSTGRES_MAX_WORD_LEN_EXPLAIN'			=> 'Words with no more than this many characters will be included in the query to the database.',
 
-	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIG_PATH'			=> 'Path to config directory',
-	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIG_PATH_EXPLAIN'	=> 'You should put the sphinx.conf file in this directory. This config directory should be outside the web accessible directories.',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIGURE'				=> 'Configure the following settings to generate sphinx config file',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_DATA_PATH'				=> 'Path to data directory',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_DATA_PATH_EXPLAIN'		=> 'It will be used to store the indexes and log files. You should create this directory outside the web accessable directories.',
@@ -83,8 +81,6 @@ $lang = array_merge($lang, array(
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_PORT'					=> 'Sphinx search daemon port',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_PORT_EXPLAIN'			=> 'Port on which the sphinx search daemon (searchd) listens. Leave empty to use the default 3312',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_WRONG_DATABASE'		=> 'The sphinx search for phpBB supports MySQL and PostgreSQL only.',
-	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_STOPWORDS_FILE'		=> 'Stopwords activated',
-	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_STOPWORDS_FILE_EXPLAIN'	=> 'You can place a file called sphinx_stopwords.txt containing one word in each line in your config directory. If this file is present these words will be excluded from the indexing process.',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIG_FILE'			=> 'Sphinx config file',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIG_FILE_EXPLAIN'	=> 'The generated content of the sphinx config file. This data needs to be pasted into the sphinx.conf which is used by sphinx search daemon.',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_NO_CONFIG_DATA'		=> 'The sphinx data and config directory paths are not defined. Please define them to generate the config file.',