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  44. <span id="id1"></span><h1>Architecture<a class="headerlink" href="#architecture" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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  46. <p class="sidebar-title">Further reading</p>
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  53. <p>Herein you will find some hints and suggestions about typical architectures of
  54. SearXNG infrastructures.</p>
  55. <section id="uwsgi-setup">
  56. <span id="architecture-uwsgi"></span><h2>uWSGI Setup<a class="headerlink" href="#uwsgi-setup" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
  57. <p>We start with a <em>reference</em> setup for public SearXNG instances which can be build
  58. up and maintained by the scripts from our <a class="reference internal" href="../utils/index.html#toolboxing"><span class="std std-ref">DevOps tooling box</span></a>.</p>
  59. <figure class="align-default" id="id2">
  60. <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">digraph</span> <span class="n">G</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  61. <span class="n">node</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">style</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">filled</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">shape</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">box</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fillcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;#ffffcc&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">Sans</span><span class="p">];</span>
  62. <span class="n">edge</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">fontname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;Sans&quot;</span><span class="p">];</span>
  63. <span class="n">browser</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;browser&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">shape</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">tab</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fillcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">aliceblue</span><span class="p">];</span>
  64. <span class="n">rp</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;reverse proxy&quot;</span><span class="p">];</span>
  65. <span class="n">static</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;static files&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">shape</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">folder</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">href</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;url to configure static files&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fillcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">lightgray</span><span class="p">];</span>
  66. <span class="n">uwsgi</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;uwsgi&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">shape</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">parallelogram</span> <span class="n">href</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;https://docs.searxng.org/utils/searx.sh.html&quot;</span><span class="p">]</span>
  67. <span class="n">redis</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;redis DB&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">shape</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">cylinder</span><span class="p">];</span>
  68. <span class="n">searxng1</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;SearXNG #1&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">blue3</span><span class="p">];</span>
  69. <span class="n">searxng2</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;SearXNG #2&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">blue3</span><span class="p">];</span>
  70. <span class="n">searxng3</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;SearXNG #3&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">blue3</span><span class="p">];</span>
  71. <span class="n">searxng4</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;SearXNG #4&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">blue3</span><span class="p">];</span>
  72. <span class="n">browser</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">rp</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;HTTPS&quot;</span><span class="p">]</span>
  73. <span class="n">subgraph</span> <span class="n">cluster_searxng</span> <span class="p">{</span>
  74. <span class="n">label</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;SearXNG instance&quot;</span> <span class="n">fontname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">Sans</span><span class="p">;</span>
  75. <span class="n">bgcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;#fafafa&quot;</span><span class="p">;</span>
  76. <span class="p">{</span> <span class="n">rank</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">same</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="n">static</span> <span class="n">rp</span> <span class="p">};</span>
  77. <span class="n">rp</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">static</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;optional: reverse proxy serves static files&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fillcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">slategray</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fontcolor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">slategray</span><span class="p">];</span>
  78. <span class="n">rp</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">uwsgi</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;http:// (tcp) or unix:// (socket)&quot;</span><span class="p">];</span>
  79. <span class="n">uwsgi</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">searxng1</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">redis</span><span class="p">;</span>
  80. <span class="n">uwsgi</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">searxng2</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">redis</span><span class="p">;</span>
  81. <span class="n">uwsgi</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">searxng3</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">redis</span><span class="p">;</span>
  82. <span class="n">uwsgi</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">searxng4</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">redis</span><span class="p">;</span>
  83. <span class="p">}</span>
  84. <span class="p">}</span>
  85. </pre></div>
  86. </div>
  87. <figcaption>
  88. <p><span class="caption-number">Fig. 2 </span><span class="caption-text">Reference architecture of a public SearXNG setup.</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Link to this image">¶</a></p>
  89. </figcaption>
  90. </figure>
  91. <p>The reference installation activates <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">server.limiter</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">server.image_proxy</span></code>
  92. and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ui.static_use_hash</span></code> (<a class="extlink-origin reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml">/etc/searxng/settings.yml</a>)</p>
  93. <div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># SearXNG settings</span>
  94. <span class="nt">use_default_settings</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
  95. <span class="nt">general</span><span class="p">:</span>
  96. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">debug</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">false</span>
  97. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">instance_name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;SearXNG&quot;</span>
  98. <span class="nt">search</span><span class="p">:</span>
  99. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">safe_search</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">2</span>
  100. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">autocomplete</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&#39;duckduckgo&#39;</span>
  101. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">formats</span><span class="p">:</span>
  102. <span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">html</span>
  103. <span class="nt">server</span><span class="p">:</span>
  104. <span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_SECRET}</span>
  105. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">secret_key</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;ultrasecretkey&quot;</span>
  106. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">limiter</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
  107. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">image_proxy</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
  108. <span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># public URL of the instance, to ensure correct inbound links. Is overwritten</span>
  109. <span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># by ${SEARXNG_BASE_URL}.</span>
  110. <span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># base_url: http://example.com/location</span>
  111. <span class="nt">redis</span><span class="p">:</span>
  112. <span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># URL to connect redis database. Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_REDIS_URL}.</span>
  113. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">url</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">unix:///usr/local/searxng-redis/run/redis.sock?db=0</span>
  114. <span class="nt">ui</span><span class="p">:</span>
  115. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">static_use_hash</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">true</span>
  116. </pre></div>
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