selfhosting-blogposts/searx/index.md

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# SearX 

Before we start, you will need a Debian 10+ VPS (you can get one on digitalocean for example), if you prefer to use your own self hosted server, make sure that port 80 and 443 are correctly port forwarded so that the public ip points to the server and not the router. Once that's done, go and ssh into your debian 10 server. 

You can use DuckDNS to get a free domain name:

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    [ 192.168.100.1/24 ] [ /dev/pts/13 ] [~/Nextcloud/blog/Conf]
    → ssh root@ech4.duckdns.org
    The authenticity of host 'ech4.duckdns.org (178.128.46.38)' can't be established.
    ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:z2HAncB99pfbAUfj9tJY7vlo8EGUzCIUxWBAnjAflcA.
    Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
    Warning: Permanently added 'ech4.duckdns.org,178.128.46.38' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
    Linux debian-s-1vcpu-1gb-lon1-01 4.19.0-10-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.132-1 (2020-07-24) x86_64
    
    The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
    the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
    individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
    
    Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
    permitted by applicable law.
    root@debian-s-1vcpu-1gb-lon1-01:~#
    
    

## **1**
    
    
    apt update -y && apt upgrade -y
    useradd --shell /bin/bash --system \
        --home-dir "/usr/local/searx" \
    	searx
    
    mkdir /usr/local/searx 
    chown -R "searx:searx" "/usr/local/searx"
    usermod -aG sudo searx
    passwd searx
    
    su searx
    cd ~
    
    git clone https://github.com/searx/searx.git searx
    cd searx
    
    sudo -H ./utils/searx.sh install all
    sudo -H ./utils/filtron.sh nginx install
    sudo -H ./utils/morty.sh nginx install
    
    sudo apt install nginx -y
    sudo -H ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/searx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/searx
    
    
    
    
    # https://example.org/searx
    
    location /searx {
        proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:4004/;
    
        proxy_set_header   Host             $http_host;
        proxy_set_header   Connection       $http_connection;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Scheme         $scheme;
        proxy_set_header   X-Script-Name    /searx;
    }
    
    location /searx/static {
        alias /usr/local/searx/searx-src/searx/static;
    }
    
        Configure reverse proxy for morty, listening on localhost 3000:
    
    # https://example.org/morty
    
    location /morty {
        proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:3000/;
    
        proxy_set_header   Host             $http_host;
        proxy_set_header   Connection       $http_connection;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Scheme         $scheme;
    }
    
    
    
    
    
    apt update -y && apt upgrade -y
    apt install git sudo curl -y
    apt install -y \
        virtualenv python3-dev python3-babel python3-venv \
        uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python3 \
        git build-essential libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev \
        shellcheck
    
    useradd --shell /bin/bash --system \
        --home-dir "/usr/local/searx" \
    	--comment 'Privacy-respecting metasearch engine' searx
    
    mkdir "/usr/local/searx"
    chown -R "searx:searx" "/usr/local/searx"
    
    su searx
    git clone "https://github.com/searx/searx.git" "/usr/local/searx/searx-src"
    
    
    python3 -m venv "/usr/local/searx/searx-pyenv"
    echo ". /usr/local/searx/searx-pyenv/bin/activate" >>  "/usr/local/searx/.profile"
    
    command -v python && python --version
    pip install -U pip
    pip install -U setuptools
    pip install -U wheel
    
    cd "/usr/local/searx/searx-src"
    pip install -e .
    
    sudo -H mkdir -p "/etc/searx"
    sudo -H cp "/usr/local/searx/searx-src/searx/settings.yml" "/etc/searx/settings.yml"
    sudo -H sed -i -e "s/ultrasecretkey/$(openssl rand -hex 16)/g" "/etc/searx/settings.yml"
    sudo -H sed -i -e "s/{instance_name}/searx@$(uname -n)/g" "/etc/searx/settings.yml"
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    su searx
    
    mkdir ~/Downloads
    cd ~/Downloads
    git clone https://github.com/searx/searx searx
    cd searx
    
    ./utils/searx.sh install all
    ./utils/filtron.sh install all
    ./utils/morty.sh install all	
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    apt install nginx -y
    ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/searx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/searx
    
    
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/searx/searx/master/utils/filtron.sh
    chmod +x filtron.sh
    ./filtron.sh
    
    useradd --shell /bin/bash --system \
        --home-dir "/usr/local/filtron" \
        --comment "Privacy-respecting metasearch engine" filtron
    		
    		
    mkdir "/usr/local/filtron"
    chown -R "filtron:filtron" "/usr/local/filtron"
    
    cat > "/usr/local/filtron/.go_env" <> ~/.profile
    (filtron) $ mkdir /usr/local/filtron/local
    (filtron) $ wget --progress=bar -O "go1.13.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz" \
                "https://dl.google.com/go/go1.13.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
    (filtron) $ tar -C /usr/local/filtron/local -xzf "go1.13.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
    (filtron) $ which go
    /usr/local/filtron/local/go/bin/go
    	
    	sudo -i -u "filtron"
    (filtron) $ go get -v -u github.com/asciimoo/filtron
    	
    get the systemd service from here https://searx.github.io/searx/utils/filtron.sh.html#filtron-sh
    	
    	filtron.sh --help
    	
    	then nginx config