searxng-docker

Create a new SearXNG instance in five minutes using Docker

What is included ?

Name	Description	Docker image	Dockerfile
Caddy	Reverse proxy (create a LetsEncrypt certificate automatically)	caddy/caddy:2-alpine	Dockerfile
SearXNG	SearXNG by itself	searxng/searxng:latest	Dockerfile
Redis	In-memory database	redis:alpine	Dockerfile-alpine.template

How to use it

Install docker
Install docker-compose (be sure that docker-compose version is at least 1.9.0)
only on MacOSX: brew install coreutils to install greadlink

Get searxng-docker

cd /usr/local
git clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker.git
cd searxng-docker

Edit the .env file to set the hostname and an email
Generate the secret key sed -i "s|ultrasecretkey|$(openssl rand -hex 32)|g" searxng/settings.yml
Edit the searxng/settings.yml file according to your need
Check everything is working: docker-compose up

Start SearXNG with systemd

You can skip this step if you don't use systemd.

cp searxng-docker.service.template searxng-docker.service
edit the content of WorkingDirectory in the searxng-docker.service file (only if the installation path is different from /usr/local/searxng-docker)

Install the systemd unit:

systemctl enable $(pwd)/searxng-docker.service
systemctl start searxng-docker.service

Note on the image proxy feature

The SearXNG image proxy is activated by default.

The default Content-Security-Policy allow the browser to access to ${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME} and https://*.tile.openstreetmap.org;.

If some users wants to disable the image proxy, you have to modify ./Caddyfile. Replace the img-src 'self' data: https://*.tile.openstreetmap.org; by img-src * data:;.

Custom docker-compose.yaml

Do not modify docker-compose.yaml otherwise you won't be able to update easily from the git repository.

It is possible to use the extend feature of docker-compose:

stop the service: systemctl stop searxng-docker.service
create a new docker-compose-extend.yaml, check with start.sh
update searxng-docker.service (see SEARXNG_DOCKERCOMPOSEFILE)
restart the service: systemctl restart searxng-docker.service

Multi Architecture Docker images

Supported architecture:

amd64
arm64
arm/v7

How to update ?

Check the content of update.sh

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