Self Hosted Search Engine - Searxng

README.md

General

• Try to implement searxng for private hosting search engine

Prepare

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

Configure .env

nano .env

---
SEARXNG_HOSTNAME=search.example.org
LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=admin@example.org
---

Turn off Limitation Search

nano /usr/local/searxng-docker/searxng/settings.yml

---
# from
limiter: true

# to
limiter: false
---

Generate secret code

sed -i "s|ultrasecretkey|$(openssl rand -hex 32)|g" searxng/settings.yml

Docker compose up

docker-compose up -d

Change Logo

• Copy logo to directory

cd /usr/local/searxng-docker
cp searxng.png /usr/local/searxng-docker/

• Bind on Docker-compose

docker-compose down
nano docker-compose.yaml

---
    volumes:
      - ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw
      - type: bind
        source: ./searxng.png
        target: /usr/local/searxng/searx/static/themes/simple/img/searxng.png
---

Reference

• https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Searx/comments/vdogy3/searxng_docker_how_to_change_the_logo/