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+Searx admin interface: manage your instance from your browser
+=============================================================
+
+One of the biggest advantages of searx is being extremely customizable. But at first it can be daunting to newcomers.
+A barrier of taking advantage of this feature is our ugly settings file which is sometimes hard to understand and edit.
+
+To make self-hosting searx more accessible a new tool is introduced, called ``searx-admin``.
+It is a web application which is capable of managing your instance and manipulating its settings via a web UI.
+It aims to replace editing of ``settings.yml`` for less experienced administrators or people
+who prefer graphical admin interfaces.
+
+.. figure:: searx-admin-engines.png
+ :scale: 50 %
+ :alt: Screenshot of engine list
+ :align: center
+ :figclass: align-center
+
+ Configuration page of engines
+
+
+Since ``searx-admin`` acts as a supervisor for searx, we have decided to implement it
+as a standalone tool instead of part of searx. Another reason for making it a standalone
+tool is that the codebase and dependencies of searx should not grow because of a fully optional feature,
+which does not affect existing instances.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Installation guide can be found in the repository of searx-admin:
+https://github.com/kvch/searx-admin#installation--usage
+
+Acknowledgements
+----------------
+
+This development was sponsored by `NLnet Foundation`_.
+
+.. _NLnet Foundation: https://nlnet.nl/
+
+
+| Happy hacking.
+| kvch // 2017.08.22 21:25