Installation ============ Step by step installation for Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv. Source: https://about.okhin.fr/posts/Searx/ with some additions How to: `Setup searx in a couple of hours with a free SSL certificate `__ .. contents:: :depth: 3 Basic installation ------------------ For Ubuntu, be sure to have enable universe repository. Install packages: .. code:: sh sudo apt-get install git build-essential libxslt-dev python-dev python-virtualenv python-pybabel zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev Install searx: .. code:: sh cd /usr/local sudo git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/searx.git sudo useradd searx -d /usr/local/searx sudo chown searx:searx -R /usr/local/searx Install dependencies in a virtualenv: .. code:: sh sudo -u searx -i cd /usr/local/searx virtualenv searx-ve . ./searx-ve/bin/activate ./manage.sh update_packages Configuration ------------- .. code:: sh sed -i -e "s/ultrasecretkey/`openssl rand -hex 16`/g" searx/settings.yml Edit searx/settings.yml if necessary. Check ----- Start searx: .. code:: sh python searx/webapp.py Go to http://localhost:8888 If everything works fine, disable the debug option in settings.yml: .. code:: sh sed -i -e "s/debug : True/debug : False/g" searx/settings.yml At this point searx is not demonized ; uwsgi allows this. You can exit the virtualenv and the searx user bash (enter exit command twice). uwsgi ----- Install packages: .. code:: sh sudo apt-get install uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python Create the configuration file /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/searx.ini with this content: :: [uwsgi] # Who will run the code uid = searx gid = searx # disable logging for privacy disable-logging = true # Number of workers (usually CPU count) workers = 4 # The right granted on the created socket chmod-socket = 666 # Plugin to use and interpretor config single-interpreter = true master = true plugin = python # Module to import module = searx.webapp # Virtualenv and python path virtualenv = /usr/local/searx/searx-ve/ pythonpath = /usr/local/searx/ chdir = /usr/local/searx/searx/ Activate the uwsgi application and restart: .. code:: sh cd /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled ln -s ../apps-available/searx.ini /etc/init.d/uwsgi restart Web server ---------- with nginx ^^^^^^^^^^ If nginx is not installed (uwsgi will not work with the package nginx-light): .. code:: sh sudo apt-get install nginx Hosted at / """"""""""" Create the configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-available/searx with this content: .. code:: nginx server { listen 80; server_name searx.example.com; root /usr/local/searx; location / { include uwsgi_params; uwsgi_pass unix:/run/uwsgi/app/searx/socket; } } Restart service: .. code:: sh sudo service nginx restart sudo service uwsgi restart from subdirectory URL (/searx) """""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Add this configuration in the server config file /etc/nginx/sites-available/default: .. code:: nginx location = /searx { rewrite ^ /searx/; } location /searx { try_files $uri @searx; } location @searx { uwsgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /searx; include uwsgi_params; uwsgi_modifier1 30; uwsgi_pass unix:/run/uwsgi/app/searx/socket; } OR using reverse proxy (Please, note that reverse proxy advised to be used in case of single-user or low-traffic instances.) .. code:: nginx location /searx { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme; proxy_set_header X-Script-Name /searx; proxy_buffering off; } Enable base\_url in searx/settings.yml :: base_url : http://your.domain.tld/searx/ Restart service: .. code:: sh sudo service nginx restart sudo service uwsgi restart disable logs ~~~~~~~~~~~~ for better privacy you can disable nginx logs about searx. how to proceed: below ``uwsgi_pass`` in /etc/nginx/sites-available/default add :: access_log /dev/null; error_log /dev/null; Restart service: .. code:: sh sudo service nginx restart with apache ^^^^^^^^^^^ Add wsgi mod: .. code:: sh sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-uwsgi sudo a2enmod uwsgi Add this configuration in the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: .. code:: apache Options FollowSymLinks Indexes SetHandler uwsgi-handler uWSGISocket /run/uwsgi/app/searx/socket Note that if your instance of searx is not at the root, you should change ```` by the location of your instance, like ````. Restart Apache: .. code:: sh sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart disable logs """""""""""" For better privacy you can disable Apache logs. WARNING: not tested WARNING: you can only disable logs for the whole (virtual) server not for a specific path. Go back to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and above ```` add: .. code:: apache CustomLog /dev/null combined Restart Apache: .. code:: sh sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart How to update ------------- .. code:: sh cd /usr/local/searx sudo -u searx -i . ./searx-ve/bin/activate git stash git pull origin master git stash apply ./manage.sh update_packages sudo service uwsgi restart Docker ------ Make sure you have installed Docker. For instance, you can deploy searx like this: .. code:: sh docker pull wonderfall/searx docker run -d --name searx -p $PORT:8888 wonderfall/searx Go to http://localhost:$PORT. See https://hub.docker.com/r/wonderfall/searx/ for more informations. It's also possible to build searx from the embedded Dockerfile. .. code:: sh git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/searx.git cd searx docker build -t whatever/searx .