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Searx admin interface: manage your instance from your browser

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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.

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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.

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Configuration page of engines

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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.

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Installation

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Installation guide can be found in the repository of searx-admin: +https://github.com/kvch/searx-admin#installation–usage

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Acknowledgements

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This development was sponsored by NLnet Foundation.

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Happy hacking.
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kvch // 2017.08.22 21:25
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