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
Filtron	Filtering reverse HTTP proxy, bot and abuse protection	dalf/filtron:latest	See asciimoo/filtron#4
SearXNG	SearXNG by itself	searxng/searxng:latest	Dockerfile
Morty	Privacy aware web content sanitizer proxy as a service.	dalf/morty:latest	Dockerfile

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

• Generate MORTY_KEY sed -i "s|ReplaceWithARealKey\!|$(openssl rand -base64 33)|g" .env
• Edit the other settings in .env file according to your need
• Check everything is working: ./start.sh,
• 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 using Morty.

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 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

For now only the amd64 platform is supported.

How to update ?

Check the content of update.sh

Access to the Filtron API

The Filtron API is available on http://localhost:4041

For example, to display the loaded rules:

curl http://localhost:4041/rules | jq