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searxng/docs/admin/settings/settings.rst
Markus Heiser 5720844fcd [doc] rearranges Settings & Engines docs for better readability
We have built up detailed documentation of the *settings* and the *engines* over
the past few years.  However, this documentation was still spread over various
chapters and was difficult to navigate in its entirety.

This patch rearranges the Settings & Engines documentation for better
readability.

To review new ordered docs::

   make docs.clean docs.live

Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
2023-07-01 22:45:19 +02:00

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.. _settings.yml:
================
``settings.yml``
================
This page describe the options possibilities of the :origin:`searx/settings.yml`
file.
.. sidebar:: Further reading ..
- :ref:`use_default_settings.yml`
- :ref:`search API`
.. contents::
:depth: 2
:local:
:backlinks: entry
.. _settings location:
settings.yml location
=====================
The initial ``settings.yml`` we be load from these locations:
1. the full path specified in the ``SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH`` environment variable.
2. ``/etc/searxng/settings.yml``
If these files don't exist (or are empty or can't be read), SearXNG uses the
:origin:`searx/settings.yml` file. Read :ref:`settings use_default_settings` to
see how you can simplify your *user defined* ``settings.yml``.
.. _settings use_default_settings:
use_default_settings
====================
.. sidebar:: ``use_default_settings: true``
- :ref:`settings location`
- :ref:`use_default_settings.yml`
- :origin:`/etc/searxng/settings.yml <utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml>`
The user defined ``settings.yml`` is loaded from the :ref:`settings location`
and can relied on the default configuration :origin:`searx/settings.yml` using:
``use_default_settings: true``
``server:``
In the following example, the actual settings are the default settings defined
in :origin:`searx/settings.yml` with the exception of the ``secret_key`` and
the ``bind_address``:
.. code:: yaml
use_default_settings: true
server:
secret_key: "ultrasecretkey" # change this!
bind_address: "0.0.0.0"
``engines:``
With ``use_default_settings: true``, each settings can be override in a
similar way, the ``engines`` section is merged according to the engine
``name``. In this example, SearXNG will load all the default engines, will
enable the ``bing`` engine and define a :ref:`token <private engines>` for
the arch linux engine:
.. code:: yaml
use_default_settings: true
server:
secret_key: "ultrasecretkey" # change this!
engines:
- name: arch linux wiki
tokens: ['$ecretValue']
- name: bing
disabled: false
``engines:`` / ``remove:``
It is possible to remove some engines from the default settings. The following
example is similar to the above one, but SearXNG doesn't load the the google
engine:
.. code:: yaml
use_default_settings:
engines:
remove:
- google
server:
secret_key: "ultrasecretkey" # change this!
engines:
- name: arch linux wiki
tokens: ['$ecretValue']
``engines:`` / ``keep_only:``
As an alternative, it is possible to specify the engines to keep. In the
following example, SearXNG has only two engines:
.. code:: yaml
use_default_settings:
engines:
keep_only:
- google
- duckduckgo
server:
secret_key: "ultrasecretkey" # change this!
engines:
- name: google
tokens: ['$ecretValue']
- name: duckduckgo
tokens: ['$ecretValue']