SearXNG

builds custom SearXNG container with a changed simple theme and settings.yml; This project builds on top of https://github.com/searxng/searxng

Project Links

Production Server / Instance : https://paulgo.io

Docker Hub : https://hub.docker.com/r/paulgoio/searxng

GitHub : https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng

GitLab : https://paulgo.dev/paulgoio/searxng

Basic Example

docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 paulgoio/searxng:production
After that just visit http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser and stop the server with ctrl-c

Production Setup

Check out the docker-compose.yml file in this repo for reference

Development

Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng.git
After making your changes in src/less make sure to update src/css by running update.sh (python, npm and make needed)
You can build the docker container locally by running (check out base branch for the alpine base with the needed python packages): docker build --pull -f ./Dockerfile -t searxng-dev:latest .
Debug the local container with: docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 searxng-dev:latest

Environment Variables (all optional: if not set -> using default settings)

IMAGE_PROXY : enable the image proxyfication through SearXNG; the built-in image proxy is used (set this to true)
REDIS_URL : set the URL of Redis server to store data for limiter plugin (for example redis://redis:6379/0 or unix:///usr/local/searxng-redis/run/redis.sock?db=0)
LIMITER : limit bot traffic; this option also requires Redis to be set up
BASE_URL : set the base URL (for example example.org would have https://example.org/ as base)
NAME : set the name of the instance, which is for example displayed in the title of the site (for example PaulGO)
PRIVACYPOLICY : set URL of privacy policy of the instance (for example https://example.org/privacy-policy)
CONTACT : set instance maintainer contact (for example mailto:user@example.org)
ISSUE_URL : set issue URL for custom SearXNG repo (for example https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng/issues !Without trailing /)
GIT_URL : set git URL for custom SearXNG repo (for example https://github.com/paulgoio/searxng)
GIT_BRANCH : set git branch for custom SearXNG repo (for example main)
PROXY : set proxy servers that are applied as round robin for all engines; separate multiple proxies with a comma (for example http://example.org:8080,http://proxy.example.net)
UWSGI_WORKERS : set the amount of uwsgi workers (each worker can handle HTTP requests to the server); defaults to the amount of CORS the server has (for example: 4)
UWSGI_THREADS : set the amount of uwsgi threads per worker; so each worker has the amount of threads defined here; defaults to 4 (for example: 4)
SEARCH_DEFAULT_LANG : Set the default language used for search queries. By default, this is set to auto to autodetect the language from the query string (for example en-US)
SEARCH_ENGINE_ACCESS_DENIED : Set the suspension timeout in seconds if a search engine throws a SEARCH_ENGINE_ACCESS_DENIED exception, by default this value is set to 86400 (e.g. 1 day)
PUBLIC_INSTANCE : Set instance as public instance to enable some optional features, that are only relevent to public instances (defaults to false, can be set to true)