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<span id="settings-general"></span><h1><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">general:</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#general" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></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">&quot;SearXNG&quot;</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="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="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="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="nt">open_metrics</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;&#39;</span>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">debug</span></code><span class="classifier"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">$SEARXNG_DEBUG</span></code></span></dt><dd><p>Allow a more detailed log if you run SearXNG directly. Display <em>detailed</em> error
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">donation_url</span></code> :</dt><dd><p>Set value to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">true</span></code> to use your own donation page written in the
<a class="reference internal" href="../../src/searx.infopage.html#searx-infopage"><span class="std std-ref">searx/info/en/donate.md</span></a> and use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">false</span></code> to disable
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">privacypolicy_url</span></code>:</dt><dd><p>Link to privacy policy.</p>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">contact_url</span></code>:</dt><dd><p>Contact <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mailto:</span></code> address or WEB form.</p>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">enable_metrics</span></code>:</dt><dd><p>Enabled by default. Record various anonymous metrics available at <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/stats</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/stats/errors</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/preferences</span></code>.</p>
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<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">open_metrics</span></code>:</dt><dd><p>Disabled by default. Set to a secret password to expose an
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