.. _installation: ============ Installation ============ .. contents:: :depth: 3 Basic installation ================== Step by step installation for Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv. For Ubuntu, be sure to have enable universe repository. Install packages: .. code:: sh $ sudo -H apt-get install \ git build-essential libxslt-dev \ python-dev python-virtualenv python-babel \ zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev Install searx: .. code:: sh cd /usr/local sudo -H git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/searx.git sudo -H useradd searx -d /usr/local/searx sudo -H chown searx:searx -R /usr/local/searx Install dependencies in a virtualenv: .. code:: sh cd /usr/local/searx sudo -H -u searx -i .. code:: sh (searx)$ virtualenv searx-ve (searx)$ . ./searx-ve/bin/activate (searx)$ ./manage.sh update_packages Configuration ============== .. code:: sh sed -i -e "s/ultrasecretkey/`openssl rand -hex 16`/g" searx/settings.yml Edit searx/settings.yml if necessary. Check ===== Start searx: .. code:: sh python searx/webapp.py Go to http://localhost:8888 If everything works fine, disable the debug option in settings.yml: .. code:: sh sed -i -e "s/debug : True/debug : False/g" searx/settings.yml At this point searx is not demonized ; uwsgi allows this. You can exit the virtualenv and the searx user bash (enter exit command twice). uwsgi ===== Install packages: .. code:: sh sudo -H apt-get install \ uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python Create the configuration file ``/etc/uwsgi/apps-available/searx.ini`` with this content: .. code:: ini [uwsgi] # Who will run the code uid = searx gid = searx # disable logging for privacy disable-logging = true # Number of workers (usually CPU count) workers = 4 # The right granted on the created socket chmod-socket = 666 # Plugin to use and interpretor config single-interpreter = true master = true plugin = python lazy-apps = true enable-threads = true # Module to import module = searx.webapp # Virtualenv and python path virtualenv = /usr/local/searx/searx-ve/ pythonpath = /usr/local/searx/ chdir = /usr/local/searx/searx/ Activate the uwsgi application and restart: .. code:: sh cd /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled ln -s ../apps-available/searx.ini /etc/init.d/uwsgi restart Web server ========== with nginx ---------- If nginx is not installed (uwsgi will not work with the package nginx-light): .. code:: sh sudo -H apt-get install nginx Hosted at / ~~~~~~~~~~~ Create the configuration file ``/etc/nginx/sites-available/searx`` with this content: .. code:: nginx server { listen 80; server_name searx.example.com; root /usr/local/searx; location / { include uwsgi_params; uwsgi_pass unix:/run/uwsgi/app/searx/socket; } } Create a symlink to sites-enabled: .. code:: sh sudo -H ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/searx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/searx Restart service: .. code:: sh sudo -H service nginx restart sudo -H service uwsgi restart from subdirectory URL (/searx) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Add this configuration in the server config file ``/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default``: .. code:: nginx location = /searx { rewrite ^ /searx/; } location /searx { try_files $uri @searx; } location @searx { uwsgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /searx; include uwsgi_params; uwsgi_modifier1 30; uwsgi_pass unix:/run/uwsgi/app/searx/socket; } **OR** using reverse proxy (Please, note that reverse proxy advised to be used in case of single-user or low-traffic instances.) .. code:: nginx location /searx { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme; proxy_set_header X-Script-Name /searx; proxy_buffering off; } Enable ``base_url`` in ``searx/settings.yml`` .. code:: yaml base_url : http://your.domain.tld/searx/ Restart service: .. code:: sh sudo -H service nginx restart sudo -H service uwsgi restart disable logs ^^^^^^^^^^^^ for better privacy you can disable nginx logs about searx. how to proceed: below ``uwsgi_pass`` in ``/etc/nginx/sites-available/default`` add: .. code:: nginx access_log /dev/null; error_log /dev/null; Restart service: .. code:: sh sudo -H service nginx restart with apache ----------- Add wsgi mod: .. code:: sh sudo -H apt-get install libapache2-mod-uwsgi sudo -H a2enmod uwsgi Add this configuration in the file ``/etc/apache2/apache2.conf``: .. code:: apache Options FollowSymLinks Indexes SetHandler uwsgi-handler uWSGISocket /run/uwsgi/app/searx/socket Note that if your instance of searx is not at the root, you should change ```` by the location of your instance, like ````. Restart Apache: .. code:: sh sudo -H /etc/init.d/apache2 restart disable logs ~~~~~~~~~~~~ For better privacy you can disable Apache logs. .. warning:: You can only disable logs for the whole (virtual) server not for a specific path. Go back to ``/etc/apache2/apache2.conf`` and above ```` add: .. code:: apache CustomLog /dev/null combined Restart Apache: .. code:: sh sudo -H /etc/init.d/apache2 restart How to update ============= .. code:: sh cd /usr/local/searx sudo -H -u searx -i .. code:: sh (searx)$ . ./searx-ve/bin/activate (searx)$ git stash (searx)$ git pull origin master (searx)$ git stash apply (searx)$ ./manage.sh update_packages .. code:: sh sudo -H service uwsgi restart Docker ====== Make sure you have installed Docker. For instance, you can deploy searx like this: .. code:: sh docker pull wonderfall/searx docker run -d --name searx -p $PORT:8888 wonderfall/searx Go to ``http://localhost:$PORT``. See https://hub.docker.com/r/wonderfall/searx/ for more informations. It's also possible to build searx from the embedded Dockerfile. .. code:: sh git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/searx.git cd searx docker build -t whatever/searx . References ========== * https://about.okhin.fr/posts/Searx/ with some additions * How to: `Setup searx in a couple of hours with a free SSL certificate `__