Installing SearxNG

The installation for SearxNG is nothing more than clonning a repository from the official searxng-docker repository (opens in a new tab) in github and make some changes in 2 files.

First you go in the directory which you want to clone the repository and run this command to clone it, just as any repository.

git clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker.git

Then you must make some changes in the settings and the .env file and you are ready to start using it!

Let's start with the settings

You must run this commnad inside the searxng-docker folder in the current directory

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

This command will generate a random key and replace the "ultrasecretkey" with it in the settings.yml file in searxng folder

Then it is the .env file

there you will find this 2 lines

# SEARXNG_HOSTNAME=<host>
# LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=<email>

The first one if you uncommend it you replace the "<host>" with a custom domain. The second is to put your email in order to genarete a ssl certificate with Let's Encrypt.

You can leave it as it is and it will work just fine in localhost