# Recoll Engine — SearXNG Documentation (2024.5.4+dbed8da28)

# Recoll Engine

Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool based on Xapian. By itself Recoll does not offer WEB or API access, this can be achieved using recoll-webui

## Configuration

You must configure the following settings:

`base_url`:

  Location where recoll-webui can be reached.

`mount_prefix`:

  Location where the file hierarchy is mounted on your local filesystem.

`dl_prefix`:

  Location where the file hierarchy as indexed by recoll can be reached.

`search_dir`:

  Part of the indexed file hierarchy to be search, if empty the full domain is searched.

## Example

Scenario:

1. Recoll indexes a local filesystem mounted in `/export/documents/reference`,

2. the Recoll search interface can be reached at https://recoll.example.org/ and

3. the contents of this filesystem can be reached though https://download.example.org/reference

    base_url: https://recoll.example.org/
    mount_prefix: /export/documents
    dl_prefix: https://download.example.org
    search_dir: ''

## Implementations