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diff --git a/docs/admin/settings.rst b/docs/admin/settings.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bfdcc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/admin/settings.rst @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +.. _settings.yml: + +================ +``settings.yml`` +================ + +.. sidebar:: Further reading .. + + - :ref:`search API` + +This page describe the options possibilities of the settings.yml file. + +.. _settings global: + +Global Settings +=============== + +.. code:: yaml + + server: + port : 8888 + secret_key : "ultrasecretkey" # change this! + debug : False # debug mode, only for development + request_timeout : 2.0 # seconds + base_url : False # set custom base_url (or False) + themes_path : "" # custom ui themes path + default_theme : oscar # ui theme + useragent_suffix : "" # suffix of searx_useragent, could contain + # informations like admins email address + image_proxy : False # proxying image results through searx + default_locale : "" # default interface locale + + # uncomment below section if you want to use a proxy + + #outgoing_proxies : + # http : http://127.0.0.1:8080 + # https: http://127.0.0.1:8080 + + # uncomment below section only if you have more than one network interface + # which can be the source of outgoing search requests + + #source_ips: + # - 1.1.1.1 + # - 1.1.1.2 + + locales: + en : English + de : Deutsch + he : Hebrew + hu : Magyar + fr : Français + es : Español + it : Italiano + nl : Nederlands + ja : 日本語 (Japanese) + tr : Türkçe + ru : Russian + ro : Romanian + + +``port`` : + Port number of the searx web application if you run it directly using ``python + searx/webapp.py``. Doesn't apply to searx running on Apache or Nginx. + +``secret_key`` : + Used for cryptography purpose. + +``debug`` : + Allow a more detailed log if you run searx directly. Display *detailed* error + messages in the browser too, so this must be deactivated in production. + +``request_timeout`` : + Global timeout of the requests made to others engines in seconds. A bigger + timeout will allow to wait for answers from slow engines, but in consequence + will slow searx reactivity (the result page may take the time specified in the + timeout to load) + +``base_url`` : + The base URL where searx is deployed. Used to create correct inbound links. + +``themes_path`` : + Path to where the themes are located. If you didn't develop anything, leave it + blank. + +``default_theme`` : + Name of the theme you want to use by default on you searx instance. + +``useragent_suffix`` : + Suffix to the user-agent searx uses to send requests to others engines. If an + engine wish to block you, a contact info here may be useful to avoid that. + +``image_proxy`` : + Allow your instance of searx of being able to proxy images. Uses memory space. + +``default_locale`` : + Aearx interface language. If blank, the locale is detected by using the + browser language. If it doesn't work, or you are deploying a language + specific instance of searx, a locale can be defined using an ISO language + code, like ``fr``, ``en``, ``de``. + +.. _requests proxies: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies +.. _PR SOCKS support: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/478 + +``outgoing_proxies`` : + Define a proxy you wish to use, see `requests proxies`_. SOCKS proxies are + not supported / see `PR SOCKS support`. + +``source_ips`` : + If you use multiple nework interfaces, define from which IP the requests must + be made. + +``locales`` : + Locales codes and their names. Available translations of searx interface. + + +.. _settings engine: + +Engine settings +=============== + +.. sidebar:: Further reading .. + + - :ref:`engines-dev` + +.. code:: yaml + + - name : bing + engine : bing + shortcut : bi + base_url : 'https://{language}.wikipedia.org/' + categories : general + timeout : 3.0 + api_key : 'apikey' + disabled : True + language : en_US + +``name`` : + Name that will be used accross searx to define this engine. In settings, on + the result page... + +``engine`` : + Name of the python file used to handle requests and responses to and from this + search engine. + +``shortcut`` : + Code used to execute bang requests (in this case using ``!bi`` or ``?bi``) + +``base_url`` : optional + Part of the URL that should be stable accross every request. Can be useful to + use multiple sites using only one engine, or updating the site URL without + touching at the code. + +``categories`` : optional + Define in which categories this engine will be active. Most of the time, it is + defined in the code of the engine, but in a few cases it is useful, like when + describing multiple search engine using the same code. + +``timeout`` : optional + Timeout of the search with the current search engine. **Be careful, it will + modify the global timeout of searx.** + +``api_key`` : optional + In a few cases, using an API needs the use of a secret key. How to obtain them + is described in the file. + +``disabled`` : optional + To disable by default the engine, but not deleting it. It will allow the user + to manually activate it in the settings. + +``language`` : optional + If you want to use another language for a specific engine, you can define it + by using the full ISO code of language and country, like ``fr_FR``, ``en_US``, + ``de_DE``. + +``weigth`` : default ``1`` + Weighting of the results of this engine. + +.. note:: + + A few more options are possible, but they are pretty specific to some + engines, and so won't be described here. |