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.
Configuration page of engines
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.