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<section id="step-by-step-installation">
<span id="installation-basic"></span><h1>Step by step installation<a class="headerlink" href="#step-by-step-installation" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#install-packages" id="id2">Install packages</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#create-user" id="id3">Create user</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#install-searxng-dependencies" id="id4">Install SearXNG & dependencies</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#configuration" id="id5">Configuration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#check" id="id6">Check</a></p></li>
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<p>In this section we show the setup of a SearXNG instance that will be installed
by the <a class="reference internal" href="installation-scripts.html#installation-scripts"><span class="std std-ref">Installation Script</span></a>.</p>
<section id="install-packages">
<span id="id1"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2" role="doc-backlink">Install packages</a><a class="headerlink" href="#install-packages" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<span class="w"> </span>python3-dev<span class="w"> </span>python3-babel<span class="w"> </span>python3-venv<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>uwsgi<span class="w"> </span>uwsgi-plugin-python3<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>git<span class="w"> </span>build-essential<span class="w"> </span>libxslt-dev<span class="w"> </span>zlib1g-dev<span class="w"> </span>libffi-dev<span class="w"> </span>libssl-dev
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<span class="w"> </span>python<span class="w"> </span>python-pip<span class="w"> </span>python-lxml<span class="w"> </span>python-babel<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>uwsgi<span class="w"> </span>uwsgi-plugin-python<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>git<span class="w"> </span>base-devel<span class="w"> </span>libxml2
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<span class="w"> </span>python<span class="w"> </span>python-pip<span class="w"> </span>python-lxml<span class="w"> </span>python-babel<span class="w"> </span>python3-devel<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>uwsgi<span class="w"> </span>uwsgi-plugin-python3<span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>git<span class="w"> </span>@development-tools<span class="w"> </span>libxml2<span class="w"> </span>openssl
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<div class="admonition hint">
<p class="admonition-title">Hint</p>
<p>This installs also the packages needed by <a class="reference internal" href="installation-uwsgi.html#searxng-uwsgi"><span class="std std-ref">uWSGI</span></a></p>
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<section id="create-user">
<span id="create-searxng-user"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" role="doc-backlink">Create user</a><a class="headerlink" href="#create-user" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<span class="w"> </span>--home-dir<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/usr/local/searxng"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>--comment<span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'Privacy-respecting metasearch engine'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>searxng
$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>mkdir<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/usr/local/searxng"</span>
$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>chown<span class="w"> </span>-R<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"searxng:searxng"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/usr/local/searxng"</span>
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<section id="install-searxng-dependencies">
<span id="searxng-src"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" role="doc-backlink">Install SearXNG & dependencies</a><a class="headerlink" href="#install-searxng-dependencies" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Start a interactive shell from new created user and clone SearXNG:</p>
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<span class="o">(</span>searxng<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span>git<span class="w"> </span>clone<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"https://github.com/searxng/searxng"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/usr/local/searxng/searxng-src"</span>
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<p>In the same shell create <em>virtualenv</em>:</p>
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<span class="o">(</span>searxng<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">echo</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">". /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/activate"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span>>><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/usr/local/searxng/.profile"</span>
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<p>To install SearXNG’s dependencies, exit the SearXNG <em>bash</em> session you opened above
and start a new one. Before installing, check if your <em>virtualenv</em> was sourced
from the login (<em>~/.profile</em>):</p>
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<span class="o">(</span>searxng<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">command</span><span class="w"> </span>-v<span class="w"> </span>python<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">&&</span><span class="w"> </span>python<span class="w"> </span>--version
/usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/python
Python<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">3</span>.11.10
<span class="c1"># update pip's boilerplate ..</span>
pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>-U<span class="w"> </span>pip
pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>-U<span class="w"> </span>setuptools
pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>-U<span class="w"> </span>wheel
pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>-U<span class="w"> </span>pyyaml
<span class="c1"># jump to SearXNG's working tree and install SearXNG into virtualenv</span>
<span class="o">(</span>searxng<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">cd</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/usr/local/searxng/searxng-src"</span>
<span class="o">(</span>searxng<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span>pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>--use-pep517<span class="w"> </span>--no-build-isolation<span class="w"> </span>-e<span class="w"> </span>.
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<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>Open a second terminal for the configuration tasks and leave the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(searx)$</span></code>
terminal open for the tasks below.</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="configuration">
<span id="use-default-settings-yml"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" role="doc-backlink">Configuration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<aside class="sidebar">
<p class="sidebar-title"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">use_default_settings:</span> <span class="pre">True</span></code></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings.html#settings-yml"><span class="std std-ref">settings.yml</span></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings.html#settings-location"><span class="std std-ref">settings.yml location</span></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings.html#settings-use-default-settings"><span class="std std-ref">use_default_settings</span></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="extlink-origin reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml">/etc/searxng/settings.yml</a></p></li>
</ul>
</aside>
<p>To create a initial <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/etc/searxng/settings.yml</span></code> we recommend to start with a
copy of the file <a class="extlink-origin reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml">git://utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml</a>. This setup
<a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings.html#settings-use-default-settings"><span class="std std-ref">use default settings</span></a> from
<a class="extlink-origin reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/settings.yml">git://searx/settings.yml</a> and is shown in the tab <em>“Use default settings”</em>
below. This setup:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>enables <a class="reference internal" href="searx.limiter.html#limiter"><span class="std std-ref">limiter</span></a> to protect against bots</p></li>
<li><p>enables <a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings_server.html#image-proxy"><span class="std std-ref">image proxy</span></a> for better privacy</p></li>
<li><p>enables <a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings_ui.html#static-use-hash"><span class="std std-ref">cache busting</span></a> to save bandwidth</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Modify the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/etc/searxng/settings.yml</span></code> to your needs:</p>
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<span class="nt">use_default_settings</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="nt">general</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">debug</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">instance_name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"SearXNG"</span>
<span class="nt">search</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">safe_search</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">2</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">autocomplete</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'duckduckgo'</span>
<span class="nt">server</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_SECRET}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">secret_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"ultrasecretkey"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">limiter</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">image_proxy</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># public URL of the instance, to ensure correct inbound links. Is overwritten</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># by ${SEARXNG_URL}.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># base_url: http://example.com/location</span>
<span class="nt">redis</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># URL to connect redis database. Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_REDIS_URL}.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">unix:///usr/local/searxng-redis/run/redis.sock?db=0</span>
<span class="nt">ui</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">static_use_hash</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="c1"># preferences:</span>
<span class="c1"># lock:</span>
<span class="c1"># - autocomplete</span>
<span class="c1"># - method</span>
<span class="nt">enabled_plugins</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'Hash</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">plugin'</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'Self</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">Information'</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'Tracker</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">URL</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">remover'</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">'Ahmia</span><span class="nv"> </span><span class="s">blacklist'</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - 'Hostnames plugin' # see 'hostnames' configuration below</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - 'Open Access DOI rewrite'</span>
<span class="c1"># plugins:</span>
<span class="c1"># - only_show_green_results</span>
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<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Debug mode, only for development. Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_DEBUG}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">debug</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># displayed name</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">instance_name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"SearXNG"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># For example: https://example.com/privacy</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">privacypolicy_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># use true to use your own donation page written in searx/info/en/donate.md</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># use false to disable the donation link</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">donation_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># mailto:contact@example.com</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">contact_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># record stats</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">enable_metrics</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># expose stats in open metrics format at /metrics</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># leave empty to disable (no password set)</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># open_metrics: <password></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">open_metrics</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">''</span>
<span class="nt">brand</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">new_issue_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/new</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">docs_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">https://docs.searxng.org/</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">public_instances</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">https://searx.space</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">wiki_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">https://github.com/searxng/searxng/wiki</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">issue_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># custom:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># maintainer: "Jon Doe"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># # Custom entries in the footer: [title]: [link]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># links:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Uptime: https://uptime.searxng.org/history/darmarit-org</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># About: "https://searxng.org"</span>
<span class="nt">search</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Filter results. 0: None, 1: Moderate, 2: Strict</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">safe_search</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">0</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Existing autocomplete backends: "dbpedia", "duckduckgo", "google", "yandex", "mwmbl",</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># "seznam", "startpage", "stract", "swisscows", "qwant", "wikipedia" - leave blank to turn it off</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># by default.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">autocomplete</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">""</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># minimun characters to type before autocompleter starts</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">autocomplete_min</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">4</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># backend for the favicon near URL in search results.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Available resolvers: "allesedv", "duckduckgo", "google", "yandex" - leave blank to turn it off by default.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">favicon_resolver</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">""</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Default search language - leave blank to detect from browser information or</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># use codes from 'languages.py'</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default_lang</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"auto"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># max_page: 0 # if engine supports paging, 0 means unlimited numbers of pages</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Available languages</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># languages:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - all</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - en</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - en-US</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - de</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - it-IT</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - fr</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - fr-BE</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># ban time in seconds after engine errors</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">ban_time_on_fail</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">5</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># max ban time in seconds after engine errors</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">max_ban_time_on_fail</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">120</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">suspended_times</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Engine suspension time after error (in seconds; set to 0 to disable)</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># For error "Access denied" and "HTTP error [402, 403]"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">SearxEngineAccessDenied</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">86400</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># For error "CAPTCHA"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">SearxEngineCaptcha</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">86400</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># For error "Too many request" and "HTTP error 429"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">SearxEngineTooManyRequests</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">3600</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Cloudflare CAPTCHA</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">cf_SearxEngineCaptcha</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">1296000</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">cf_SearxEngineAccessDenied</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">86400</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># ReCAPTCHA</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">recaptcha_SearxEngineCaptcha</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">604800</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># remove format to deny access, use lower case.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># formats: [html, csv, json, rss]</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">formats</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">html</span>
<span class="nt">server</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_PORT} and ${SEARXNG_BIND_ADDRESS}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">port</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">8888</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">bind_address</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"127.0.0.1"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># public URL of the instance, to ensure correct inbound links. Is overwritten</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># by ${SEARXNG_URL}.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">base_url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># "http://example.com/location"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># rate limit the number of request on the instance, block some bots.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_LIMITER}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">limiter</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># enable features designed only for public instances.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_PUBLIC_INSTANCE}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">public_instance</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># If your instance owns a /etc/searxng/settings.yml file, then set the following</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># values there.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">secret_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"ultrasecretkey"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_SECRET}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Proxy image results through SearXNG. Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_IMAGE_PROXY}</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">image_proxy</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># 1.0 and 1.1 are supported</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">http_protocol_version</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"1.0"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># POST queries are more secure as they don't show up in history but may cause</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># problems when using Firefox containers</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">method</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"POST"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default_http_headers</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">X-Content-Type-Options</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">nosniff</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">X-Download-Options</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">noopen</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">X-Robots-Tag</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">noindex, nofollow</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">Referrer-Policy</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">no-referrer</span>
<span class="nt">redis</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># URL to connect redis database. Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_REDIS_URL}.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># https://docs.searxng.org/admin/settings/settings_redis.html#settings-redis</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="nt">ui</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Custom static path - leave it blank if you didn't change</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">static_path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">""</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_STATIC_USE_HASH}.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">static_use_hash</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Custom templates path - leave it blank if you didn't change</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">templates_path</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">""</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># query_in_title: When true, the result page's titles contains the query</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># it decreases the privacy, since the browser can records the page titles.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">query_in_title</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># infinite_scroll: When true, automatically loads the next page when scrolling to bottom of the current page.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">infinite_scroll</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># ui theme</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default_theme</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">simple</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># center the results ?</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">center_alignment</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># URL prefix of the internet archive, don't forget trailing slash (if needed).</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># cache_url: "https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:"</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Default interface locale - leave blank to detect from browser information or</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># use codes from the 'locales' config section</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">default_locale</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">""</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Open result links in a new tab by default</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># results_on_new_tab: false</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">theme_args</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># style of simple theme: auto, light, dark</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">simple_style</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">auto</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Perform search immediately if a category selected.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Disable to select multiple categories at once and start the search manually.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">search_on_category_select</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Hotkeys: default or vim</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">hotkeys</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">default</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># URL formatting: pretty, full or host</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">url_formatting</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">pretty</span>
<span class="c1"># Lock arbitrary settings on the preferences page. To find the ID of the user</span>
<span class="c1"># setting you want to lock, check the ID of the form on the page "preferences".</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># preferences:</span>
<span class="c1"># lock:</span>
<span class="c1"># - language</span>
<span class="c1"># - autocomplete</span>
<span class="c1"># - method</span>
<span class="c1"># - query_in_title</span>
<span class="c1"># searx supports result proxification using an external service:</span>
<span class="c1"># https://github.com/asciimoo/morty uncomment below section if you have running</span>
<span class="c1"># morty proxy the key is base64 encoded (keep the !!binary notation)</span>
<span class="c1"># Note: since commit af77ec3, morty accepts a base64 encoded key.</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># result_proxy:</span>
<span class="c1"># url: http://127.0.0.1:3000/</span>
<span class="c1"># # the key is a base64 encoded string, the YAML !!binary prefix is optional</span>
<span class="c1"># key: !!binary "your_morty_proxy_key"</span>
<span class="c1"># # [true|false] enable the "proxy" button next to each result</span>
<span class="c1"># proxify_results: true</span>
<span class="c1"># communication with search engines</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="nt">outgoing</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># default timeout in seconds, can be override by engine</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">request_timeout</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">3.0</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># the maximum timeout in seconds</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># max_request_timeout: 10.0</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># suffix of searx_useragent, could contain information like an email address</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># to the administrator</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">useragent_suffix</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">""</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># The maximum number of concurrent connections that may be established.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">pool_connections</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">100</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Allow the connection pool to maintain keep-alive connections below this</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># point.</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">pool_maxsize</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">20</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># See https://www.python-httpx.org/http2/</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">enable_http2</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># uncomment below section if you want to use a custom server certificate</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># see https://www.python-httpx.org/advanced/#changing-the-verification-defaults</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># and https://www.python-httpx.org/compatibility/#ssl-configuration</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># verify: ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.cer</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># uncomment below section if you want to use a proxyq see: SOCKS proxies</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># https://2.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># are also supported: see</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># https://2.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#socks</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># proxies:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># all://:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - http://proxy1:8080</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - http://proxy2:8080</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># using_tor_proxy: true</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Extra seconds to add in order to account for the time taken by the proxy</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># extra_proxy_timeout: 10</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># uncomment below section only if you have more than one network interface</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># which can be the source of outgoing search requests</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># source_ips:</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - 1.1.1.1</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - 1.1.1.2</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># - fe80::/126</span>
<span class="c1"># External plugin configuration, for more details see</span>
<span class="c1"># https://docs.searxng.org/dev/plugins.html</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># plugins:</span>
<span class="c1"># - plugin1</span>
<span class="c1"># - plugin2</span>
<span class="c1"># - ...</span>
<span class="c1"># Comment or un-comment plugin to activate / deactivate by default.</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># enabled_plugins:</span>
<span class="c1"># # these plugins are enabled if nothing is configured ..</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Basic Calculator'</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Hash plugin'</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Self Information'</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Tracker URL remover'</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Unit converter plugin'</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Ahmia blacklist' # activation depends on outgoing.using_tor_proxy</span>
<span class="c1"># # these plugins are disabled if nothing is configured ..</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Hostnames plugin' # see 'hostnames' configuration below</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Open Access DOI rewrite'</span>
<span class="c1"># - 'Tor check plugin'</span>
<span class="c1"># Configuration of the "Hostnames plugin":</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>To see the entire file jump to <a class="extlink-origin reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/settings.yml">git://searx/settings.yml</a></p>
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<p>For a <em>minimal setup</em> you need to set <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">server:secret_key</span></code>.</p>
<div class="sphinx-tabs docutils container">
<div aria-label="Tabbed content" class="closeable" role="tablist"><button aria-controls="panel-6-VXNlIGRlZmF1bHQgc2V0dGluZ3M=" aria-selected="true" class="sphinx-tabs-tab group-tab" id="tab-6-VXNlIGRlZmF1bHQgc2V0dGluZ3M=" name="VXNlIGRlZmF1bHQgc2V0dGluZ3M=" role="tab" tabindex="0">Use default settings</button><button aria-controls="panel-6-bWluaW1hbCBzZXR1cA==" aria-selected="false" class="sphinx-tabs-tab group-tab" id="tab-6-bWluaW1hbCBzZXR1cA==" name="bWluaW1hbCBzZXR1cA==" role="tab" tabindex="-1">minimal setup</button></div><div aria-labelledby="tab-6-VXNlIGRlZmF1bHQgc2V0dGluZ3M=" class="sphinx-tabs-panel group-tab" id="panel-6-VXNlIGRlZmF1bHQgc2V0dGluZ3M=" name="VXNlIGRlZmF1bHQgc2V0dGluZ3M=" role="tabpanel" tabindex="0"><div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>mkdir<span class="w"> </span>-p<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/etc/searxng"</span>
$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>cp<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/etc/searxng/settings.yml"</span>
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</div><div aria-labelledby="tab-6-bWluaW1hbCBzZXR1cA==" class="sphinx-tabs-panel group-tab" hidden="true" id="panel-6-bWluaW1hbCBzZXR1cA==" name="bWluaW1hbCBzZXR1cA==" role="tabpanel" tabindex="0"><div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>sed<span class="w"> </span>-i<span class="w"> </span>-e<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"s/ultrasecretkey/</span><span class="k">$(</span>openssl<span class="w"> </span>rand<span class="w"> </span>-hex<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">16</span><span class="k">)</span><span class="s2">/g"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/etc/searxng/settings.yml"</span>
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<section id="check">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" role="doc-backlink">Check</a><a class="headerlink" href="#check" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>To check your SearXNG setup, optional enable debugging and start the <em>webapp</em>.
SearXNG looks at the exported environment <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH</span></code> for a
configuration file.</p>
<div class="sphinx-tabs docutils container">
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$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>sed<span class="w"> </span>-i<span class="w"> </span>-e<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"s/debug : False/debug : True/g"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/etc/searxng/settings.yml"</span>
<span class="c1"># start webapp</span>
$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>-u<span class="w"> </span>searxng<span class="w"> </span>-i
<span class="o">(</span>searxng<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">cd</span><span class="w"> </span>/usr/local/searxng/searxng-src
<span class="o">(</span>searxng<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">export</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"/etc/searxng/settings.yml"</span>
<span class="o">(</span>searxng<span class="o">)</span>$<span class="w"> </span>python<span class="w"> </span>searx/webapp.py
<span class="c1"># disable debug</span>
$<span class="w"> </span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>sed<span class="w"> </span>-i<span class="w"> </span>-e<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"s/debug : True/debug : False/g"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">"/etc/searxng/settings.yml"</span>
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<p>Open WEB browser and visit <a class="reference external" href="http://127.0.0.1:8888">http://127.0.0.1:8888</a> . If you are inside a
container or in a script, test with curl:</p>
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<div aria-label="Tabbed content" class="closeable" role="tablist"><button aria-controls="panel-8-V0VCIGJyb3dzZXI=" aria-selected="true" class="sphinx-tabs-tab group-tab" id="tab-8-V0VCIGJyb3dzZXI=" name="V0VCIGJyb3dzZXI=" role="tab" tabindex="0">WEB browser</button><button aria-controls="panel-8-Y3VybA==" aria-selected="false" class="sphinx-tabs-tab group-tab" id="tab-8-Y3VybA==" name="Y3VybA==" role="tab" tabindex="-1">curl</button></div><div aria-labelledby="tab-8-V0VCIGJyb3dzZXI=" class="sphinx-tabs-panel group-tab" id="panel-8-V0VCIGJyb3dzZXI=" name="V0VCIGJyb3dzZXI=" role="tabpanel" tabindex="0"><div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$<span class="w"> </span>xdg-open<span class="w"> </span>http://127.0.0.1:8888
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</div><div aria-labelledby="tab-8-Y3VybA==" class="sphinx-tabs-panel group-tab" hidden="true" id="panel-8-Y3VybA==" name="Y3VybA==" role="tabpanel" tabindex="0"><div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ curl --location --verbose --head --insecure 127.0.0.1:8888
* Trying 127.0.0.1:8888...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 8888 (#0)
> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 127.0.0.1:8888
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
* HTTP 1.0, assume close after body
< HTTP/1.0 200 OK
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
...
</pre></div>
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<p>If everything works fine, hit <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[CTRL-C]</span></code> to stop the <em>webapp</em> and disable the
debug option in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">settings.yml</span></code>. You can now exit SearXNG user bash session (enter exit
command twice). At this point SearXNG is not demonized; uwsgi allows this.</p>
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