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Step by step installation
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Step by step installation with virtualenv. For Ubuntu, be sure to have enable universe repository.
Install packages
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
Hint
This installs also the packages needed by searx uwsgi
Create user
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
install searx & dependencies
Start a interactive shell from new created user and clone searx:
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
In the same shell create virtualenv:
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
To install searx's dependencies, exit the searx bash session you opened above and restart a new. Before install, first check if your virtualenv was sourced from the login (~/.profile):
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
Tip
Open a second terminal for the configuration tasks and leave the (searx)$
terminal open for the tasks below.
Configuration
use_default_settings: True
settings global
settings location
settings use_default_settings
/etc/searx/settings.yml <utils/templates/etc/searx/use_default_settings.yml>
To create a initial /etc/searx/settings.yml
you can start with a copy of the file utils/templates/etc/searx/use_default_settings.yml
. This setup use default settings <settings use_default_settings>
from searx/settings.yml
and is recommended since 2291
is merged.
For a minimal setup, configure like shown below – replace searx@$(uname -n)
with a name of your choice, set ultrasecretkey
-- and/or edit /etc/searx/settings.yml
to your needs.
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
Use default settings
../../utils/templates/etc/searx/use_default_settings.yml
searx/settings.yml
../../searx/settings.yml
Check
To check your searx setup, optional enable debugging and start the webapp. Searx looks at the exported environment $SEARX_SETTINGS_PATH
for a configuration file.
$DOCS_BUILD/includes/searx.rst
If everything works fine, hit [CTRL-C]
to stop the webapp and disable the debug option in settings.yml
. You can now exit searx user bash (enter exit command twice). At this point searx is not demonized; uwsgi allows this.