searx-docker VS searx-instances

I'm having the exact same issue on my Arch machine. I think this Github issue might be relevant.

I found a solution so if anyone comes across this thread with the same question here's how I resolved it. I installed Searx using the instructions found here. https://github.com/searx/searx-docker on a laptop and while the instructions got the service up and running the https cert wasn't trusted so I kept getting an error when accessing the service at https://localhost. To resolve the issue I installed Caddy. Trusted the cert, and ran the CA now I can access https://localhost and get Searx without an error. Hopefully someone with more knowledge of web services will comment on this tread and provide a more detailed expiation but here's there commands I ran on my Arch Linux install so modify to your needs. # pacman -S caddy # caddy trust

There is some extra stuff you've got to give it permission to access out of the box. You can see an example csp here https://github.com/searx/searx-docker/blob/4ad61d64991d76a7d300b7b867771ffed9f224ca/Caddyfile#L83 that will work nicely with searx itself however possibly not plugins. Your browsers devtools can be very helpful in figuring out what exactly you need to add/change if something specific is not working. Post the details of that if you are still having issues while using something like what I have linked.

I first attempted to follow the install instructions but got stuck there, and now I have tried to install with docker using searx-docker but have run into an error. Everything was going fine but when I finally try to run with the command:

I just installed a searx instance into my VPS followed the instructions on searx/searx-docker, and i have some question:

If you are not comfortable with Linux you could install Searx using Docker, it's very simple and officially supported: https://github.com/searx/searx-docker

I still recommend a Searx instance over google. Independently run search engines using an open-source software that aggregate searches over multiple engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, DDG, Ecosia, and many many more.

This kind of thing is why I use searx

I recommend hopping on public SearxNG instances. https://searx.space/

This was my default search in Safari, the "new tab opens with" way.

Now it shows "Cloud provider terminated all my servers, service is down for the moment. Working on it. Sorry. Please use other instances on https://searx.space"

Assuming you don't publicly list this instance on searx.space, you should be fine with a small vps. I don't see this thing having more than a dozen concurrent users so I wouldn't bother with a vps larger than 2gb of ram and 2 cpu . This should cost less than 10-20 bucks a month on vultr or digitalocean. Then you just need a domain, which can be as little as like 8 bucks a year depends on where you get it. So I'd estimate it would cost 80-120 a year to run.

If anyone is interested in getting around search related privacy issues, look into a public SearXNG instance. It doesn't mitigate all privacy concerns but does a lot to move in that direction.

Try SearXNG (https://searx.space/)

If you want to try it out before creating your own, check out https://searx.space/