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Searx admin interface: manage your instance from your browser
One of the biggest advantages of searx is being extremely customizable. But at first it can be daunting to newcomers. A barrier of taking advantage of this feature is our ugly settings file which is sometimes hard to understand and edit.
To make self-hosting searx more accessible a new tool is introduced, called searx-admin. It is a web application which is capable of managing your instance and manipulating its settings via a web UI. It aims to replace editing of settings.yml for less experienced administrators or people who prefer graphical admin interfaces.
Since searx-admin acts as a supervisor for searx, we have decided to implement it as a standalone tool instead of part of searx. Another reason for making it a standalone tool is that the codebase and dependencies of searx should not grow because of a fully optional feature, which does not affect existing instances.
Installation
Installation guide can be found in the repository of searx-admin: https://github.com/kvch/searx-admin#installation--usage
Acknowledgements
This development was sponsored by NLnet Foundation.
kvch // 2017.08.22 21:25