You are brilliant, thank you very much for this guide. I will be happy If you create some videos about useful open source project for safe using internet Have a nice day to you :)
This is super helpful, as if gives me some guidance on nginx I couldn't figure out from instructions and playing with it. Do you know how to test the search engine to see if it is actually doing the privacy protection stuff it's supposed to do?
I don't know how to code audit but Searx is an open source search engine. Basically, all you need to verify is how much info it gives to search engines to gather results. Most CLI tools provide minimal metadata Also, running it on your own server masks your home IP address which is the easiest way to ID you
@@NicholasHenkey - thanks. Another question... If you do a private instance and don't do certbot to get https, will searx still do its searches using https? I don't want searx to send or receive requests from search engines over http. Thanks so much!
@@rasraster I highly recommend Certbot. All major search engines require port 443 (https) connections. Searx also does some proxy magic to hide metadata (setup in the video) but if you connect via HTTP then all your searches will be plain text Basically without https you will be giving your ISP plain text access to your every query
Google warned my neighbor but he kept on crushing those pills, dismantling the batteries, and shaking them up in a used 2L bottle The police had to intervene. Someone must have called in a 5150
@@NicholasHenkey I had a neighbor that was a cook. She was always seeing cops in her yard that weren't there. She'd stand at the window literally 12 hours at a time. It's sad what that stuff is doing to the country and now we have the Fentanyl issue on top of that.
I'm getting a too many redirects error when I try to log on to my searx instance. I've rerun certbot and checked my DNS settings already (in addition to just restarting everything). Any ideas on what might be wrong?
By "log on" do you mean access your instance? Have you checked your Nginx logs? nginx -V should tell you where it is but usually it's in the /var/log/nginx and you can run a tail command on error.log or similarly named text file It sounds like there might be a bracket missing or something in your web server (Nginx) configuration for your port 80 to 443 redirect. Just guessing though
Hello there, this was a great video. I'm trying to follow the steps and I seem to get an error in installing both MORTY and FILTRON. Unfortunately, the error is so uninformative ("Error: Unknown error") that I am not even able to search good workarounds for it! Could it be a Ubuntu 22 version issue?
Another commenter said he had more luck with the docker version of Searx. I just got done with a 7 month move from San Diego to Washington DC and haven't been able to look into reviewing that process, yet
Nice and very greatful vedio and i m really thankful to you for your great work and great knowledge . But still i 🤔 is we can erase name of searx from everywhere from his instance being open source can customise his index templates and can ingest our own database... searx instance is made of sphinx and consist elastic search inside (in older version of searx). You are very good as i found and keep it up so that you can enlighten path of ours. Thanks
@@NicholasHenkey thanxs for reply but there is serious problem in your installation method. Url is showing (../searx ) on searching something in search engine.
@@meerachaturvedi9050 understood and there is probably a way to remove that artifact. Revisiting this video is really far down the list of priorities right now
@@NicholasHenkey i appreciate your efforts but some updates will make yours vedio stuff best above all other vedios in the UA-cam perhaps in the the world as i can say.
Hi there, I am getting a 404 error with my website - I cant get it to work. It says it isnt redirecting properly. Also do we need to include a root /usr/local ...etc in our sites-available/searx configuration
As far as redirects, that may be controlled by either your VPS or domain registrar but there could also be a problem in your web server. It's not possible for me to diagnose that over the internet As far as the root file tree, in the description is a GitHub document for your web server configuration file. That directory is one of the 3 services that will be running on various ports: location /static/ { alias /usr/local/searx/searx-src/searx/static/; } This one runs on port 80 & 443 and the others run on 3000 and 4004
@@NicholasHenkey I managed to get it working! However I used the docker version which is much quicker - I feel like it must have some downsides that I am not aware of because of how easy it was to install. Do you know where I can find documentation on installing morty and filtron with the docker installation of searx?
@@wiii7881 Docker containerizes stuff, if it runs on the web it's probably fine. I'm glad someone made an easier installer! Learning enough to make this video was not fun, haha The downside of containerization can be resource consumption and website responsiveness. You would notice if you're search engine is running *way* too slow
I have gone through this whole thing but I cant get to the service from a different computer... this is hopeless; I can never get these sorts of things to work. Guess I'll blow the whole thing away and try again.
Really appreciate this tutorial, but seriously why does the installation of something like this have to be made so difficult?! It should be one package, you download and install and it comes with a default configuraion that just works.
![Search the Web Privately with Your Own Locally Hosted Searx Instance [Tutorial]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fKOorVJzQas/mqdefault.jpg)
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yes indeed luke smtihs video is outdated
subbed thanks
You are brilliant, thank you very much for this guide.
I will be happy If you create some videos about useful open source project for safe using internet
Have a nice day to you :)
Yay new video
This is super helpful, as if gives me some guidance on nginx I couldn't figure out from instructions and playing with it. Do you know how to test the search engine to see if it is actually doing the privacy protection stuff it's supposed to do?
I don't know how to code audit but Searx is an open source search engine. Basically, all you need to verify is how much info it gives to search engines to gather results. Most CLI tools provide minimal metadata
Also, running it on your own server masks your home IP address which is the easiest way to ID you
@@NicholasHenkey - thanks. Another question... If you do a private instance and don't do certbot to get https, will searx still do its searches using https? I don't want searx to send or receive requests from search engines over http. Thanks so much!
@@rasraster I highly recommend Certbot. All major search engines require port 443 (https) connections. Searx also does some proxy magic to hide metadata (setup in the video) but if you connect via HTTP then all your searches will be plain text
Basically without https you will be giving your ISP plain text access to your every query
@@NicholasHenkey - awesome. I thought so, but I install videos that don't address it. That's why I was so happy you addressed it.
I have a problem. I set my site up as you showed but it doesn't say not to store Sudafed with batteries. How will people be warned now?
Google warned my neighbor but he kept on crushing those pills, dismantling the batteries, and shaking them up in a used 2L bottle
The police had to intervene. Someone must have called in a 5150
@@NicholasHenkey I had a neighbor that was a cook. She was always seeing cops in her yard that weren't there. She'd stand at the window literally 12 hours at a time. It's sad what that stuff is doing to the country and now we have the Fentanyl issue on top of that.
@@jasonelliott729 the opiate crisis is depressing on a whole other level
Hey, can I install it on shared hosting without root access but ssh and nodejs
Educational!!
Finally! 🙌🏻
Couldn't be more greatful man. Keeping spreading the awareness.
I'm getting a too many redirects error when I try to log on to my searx instance. I've rerun certbot and checked my DNS settings already (in addition to just restarting everything). Any ideas on what might be wrong?
By "log on" do you mean access your instance?
Have you checked your Nginx logs? nginx -V should tell you where it is but usually it's in the /var/log/nginx and you can run a tail command on error.log or similarly named text file
It sounds like there might be a bracket missing or something in your web server (Nginx) configuration for your port 80 to 443 redirect. Just guessing though
@@NicholasHenkey I got it figured out. I just wiped my DNS settings and started over. I don’t what was wrong, but that fixed it.
Hello there, this was a great video. I'm trying to follow the steps and I seem to get an error in installing both MORTY and FILTRON. Unfortunately, the error is so uninformative ("Error: Unknown error") that I am not even able to search good workarounds for it! Could it be a Ubuntu 22 version issue?
Another commenter said he had more luck with the docker version of Searx. I just got done with a 7 month move from San Diego to Washington DC and haven't been able to look into reviewing that process, yet
Nice and very greatful vedio and i m really thankful to you for your great work and great knowledge .
But still i 🤔 is we can erase name of searx from everywhere from his instance being open source can customise his index templates and can ingest our own database...
searx instance is made of sphinx and consist elastic search inside (in older version of searx).
You are very good as i found and keep it up so that you can enlighten path of ours.
Thanks
Can you create a vedio for adding searx admin to searx instance .
Feel good if you will do so
I'll look into it. It's going to be a long while, though, because my training environment is misbehaving
@@NicholasHenkey thanxs for reply but there is serious problem in your installation method.
Url is showing (../searx ) on searching something in search engine.
@@meerachaturvedi9050 understood and there is probably a way to remove that artifact. Revisiting this video is really far down the list of priorities right now
@@NicholasHenkey i appreciate your efforts but some updates will make yours vedio stuff best above all other vedios in the UA-cam perhaps in the the world as i can say.
Hi there, I am getting a 404 error with my website - I cant get it to work. It says it isnt redirecting properly. Also do we need to include a root /usr/local ...etc in our sites-available/searx configuration
As far as redirects, that may be controlled by either your VPS or domain registrar but there could also be a problem in your web server. It's not possible for me to diagnose that over the internet
As far as the root file tree, in the description is a GitHub document for your web server configuration file. That directory is one of the 3 services that will be running on various ports:
location /static/ {
alias /usr/local/searx/searx-src/searx/static/;
}
This one runs on port 80 & 443 and the others run on 3000 and 4004
@@NicholasHenkey I managed to get it working! However I used the docker version which is much quicker - I feel like it must have some downsides that I am not aware of because of how easy it was to install. Do you know where I can find documentation on installing morty and filtron with the docker installation of searx?
@@wiii7881 Docker containerizes stuff, if it runs on the web it's probably fine. I'm glad someone made an easier installer! Learning enough to make this video was not fun, haha
The downside of containerization can be resource consumption and website responsiveness. You would notice if you're search engine is running *way* too slow
I have gone through this whole thing but I cant get to the service from a different computer... this is hopeless; I can never get these sorts of things to work. Guess I'll blow the whole thing away and try again.
Have you set up a website before? Sometimes configuring between VPS, server, and domain registrar can be tricky
@@NicholasHenkey it's embarrassing... All I needed to do was clear my browser cache...
@@UA-camstopsharingmyrealname it happens to us all. Glad it's working for you!
Really appreciate this tutorial, but seriously why does the installation of something like this have to be made so difficult?! It should be one package, you download and install and it comes with a default configuraion that just works.
It's simpler to install locally. The rest is just complicated to protect your server and searches from attack/interception
It is that simple... if you use Docker...