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  <section id="searxng-maintenance">
<span id="id1"></span><h1>SearXNG maintenance<a class="headerlink" href="#searxng-maintenance" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<p class="sidebar-title">further read</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../utils/index.html#toolboxing"><span class="std std-ref">DevOps tooling box</span></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="installation-uwsgi.html#uwsgi-maintenance"><span class="std std-ref">uWSGI maintenance</span></a></p></li>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#how-to-update" id="id3">How to update</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#how-to-inspect-debug" id="id4">How to inspect &amp; debug</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#migrate-and-stay-tuned" id="id5">Migrate and stay tuned!</a></p>
<ul>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#remove-obsolete-services" id="id6">remove obsolete services</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#check-after-installation" id="id7">Check after Installation</a></p></li>
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<section id="how-to-update">
<span id="update-searxng"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" role="doc-backlink">How to update</a><a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-update" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>How to update depends on the <a class="reference internal" href="installation.html#installation"><span class="std std-ref">Installation</span></a> method.  If you have used the
<a class="reference internal" href="installation-scripts.html#installation-scripts"><span class="std std-ref">Installation Script</span></a>, use the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">update</span></code> command from the <a class="reference internal" href="../utils/searxng.sh.html#searxng-sh"><span class="std std-ref">utils/searxng.sh</span></a>
script.</p>
<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>./utils/searxng.sh<span class="w"> </span>instance<span class="w"> </span>update
</pre></div>
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</section>
<section id="how-to-inspect-debug">
<span id="inspect-searxng"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" role="doc-backlink">How to inspect &amp; debug</a><a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-inspect-debug" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>How to debug depends on the <a class="reference internal" href="installation.html#installation"><span class="std std-ref">Installation</span></a> method.  If you have used the
<a class="reference internal" href="installation-scripts.html#installation-scripts"><span class="std std-ref">Installation Script</span></a>, use the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">inspect</span></code> command from the <a class="reference internal" href="../utils/searxng.sh.html#searxng-sh"><span class="std std-ref">utils/searxng.sh</span></a>
script.</p>
<div class="highlight-sh notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>sudo<span class="w"> </span>-H<span class="w"> </span>./utils/searxng.sh<span class="w"> </span>instance<span class="w"> </span>inspect
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<section id="migrate-and-stay-tuned">
<span id="id2"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" role="doc-backlink">Migrate and stay tuned!</a><a class="headerlink" href="#migrate-and-stay-tuned" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<p class="sidebar-title">info</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="extlink-pull reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1332">PR 1332</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="extlink-pull reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/456">PR 456</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="extlink-pull reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/446#issuecomment-954730358">A comment about rolling release</a></p></li>
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<p>SearXNG is a <em>rolling release</em>; each commit to the master branch is a release.
SearXNG is growing rapidly, the services and opportunities are change every now
and then, to name just a few:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Bot protection has been switched from filtron to SearXNG’s <a class="reference internal" href="searx.limiter.html#limiter"><span class="std std-ref">limiter</span></a>, this requires a <a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings_redis.html#settings-redis"><span class="std std-ref">Redis</span></a> database.</p></li>
<li><p>The image proxy morty is no longer needed, it has been replaced by the
<a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings_server.html#image-proxy"><span class="std std-ref">image proxy</span></a> from SearXNG.</p></li>
<li><p>To save bandwidth <a class="reference internal" href="settings/settings_ui.html#static-use-hash"><span class="std std-ref">cache busting</span></a> has been implemented.
To get in use, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">static-expires</span></code> needs to be set in the <a class="reference internal" href="installation-uwsgi.html#uwsgi-setup"><span class="std std-ref">uWSGI setup</span></a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>To stay tuned and get in use of the new features, instance maintainers have to
update the SearXNG code regularly (see <a class="reference internal" href="#update-searxng"><span class="std std-ref">How to update</span></a>).  As the above
examples show, this is not always enough, sometimes services have to be set up
or reconfigured and sometimes services that are no longer needed should be
uninstalled.</p>
<div class="admonition hint">
<p class="admonition-title">Hint</p>
<p>First of all: SearXNG is installed by the script <a class="reference internal" href="../utils/searxng.sh.html#searxng-sh"><span class="std std-ref">utils/searxng.sh</span></a>.  If you
have old filtron, morty or searx setup you should consider complete
uninstall/reinstall.</p>
</div>
<p>Here you will find a list of changes that affect the infrastructure.  Please
check to what extent it is necessary to update your installations:</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt><a class="extlink-pull reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1595">PR 1595</a>: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[fix]</span> <span class="pre">uWSGI:</span> <span class="pre">increase</span> <span class="pre">buffer-size</span></code></dt><dd><p>Re-install uWSGI (<a class="reference internal" href="../utils/searxng.sh.html#searxng-sh"><span class="std std-ref">utils/searxng.sh</span></a>) or fix your uWSGI <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">searxng.ini</span></code>
file manually.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<section id="remove-obsolete-services">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" role="doc-backlink">remove obsolete services</a><a class="headerlink" href="#remove-obsolete-services" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>If your searx instance was installed <em>“Step by step”</em> or by the <em>“Installation
scripts”</em>, you need to undo the installation procedure completely.  If you have
morty &amp; filtron installed, it is recommended to uninstall these services also.
In case of scripts, to uninstall use the scripts from the origin you installed
searx from or try:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ sudo -H ./utils/filtron.sh remove all
$ sudo -H ./utils/morty.sh   remove all
$ sudo -H ./utils/searx.sh   remove all
</pre></div>
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<div class="admonition hint">
<p class="admonition-title">Hint</p>
<p>If you are migrate from searx take into account that the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.config.sh</span></code> is no
longer used.</p>
</div>
<p>If you upgrade from searx or from before <a class="extlink-pull reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pull/1332">PR 1332</a> has been merged and you
have filtron and/or morty installed, don’t forget to remove HTTP sites.</p>
<p>Apache:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ sudo -H ./utils/filtron.sh apache remove
$ sudo -H ./utils/morty.sh apache remove
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>nginx:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ sudo -H ./utils/filtron.sh nginx remove
$ sudo -H ./utils/morty.sh nginx remove
</pre></div>
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<section id="check-after-installation">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7" role="doc-backlink">Check after Installation</a><a class="headerlink" href="#check-after-installation" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Once you have done your installation, you can run a SearXNG <em>check</em> procedure,
to see if there are some left overs.  In this example there exists a <em>old</em>
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/etc/searx/settings.yml</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ sudo -H ./utils/searxng.sh instance check

SearXNG checks
--------------
ERROR: settings.yml in /etc/searx/ is deprecated, move file to folder /etc/searxng/
INFO:  [OK] (old) account &#39;searx&#39; does not exists
INFO:  [OK] (old) account &#39;filtron&#39; does not exists
INFO:  [OK] (old) account &#39;morty&#39; does not exists
...
INFO    searx.redisdb                 : connecting to Redis db=0 path=&#39;/usr/local/searxng-redis/run/redis.sock&#39;
INFO    searx.redisdb                 : connected to Redis
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