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Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?
(docs.searxng.org)
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I host my own SearXNG via docker compose, reverse proxied it via Traefik, added a few security headers, restricted access to my country to help prevent abuse.
Use it daily, the only complaint I really have is it occasionally doesn’t search when you type in the address bar of a browser. What I mean is I’ll type a search query and instead of redirecting to the query (searx.yourdomain.tld/search?q=test) it’ll just redirect to the homepage of my SearXNG instance (searx.yourdomain.tld) forcing me to retype my query. Annoying but not the end of the world.
Do you have the
%sin the search string:searx.yourdomain.tld/search?q=%s. For instance, in Firefox, when you add you searx instance, I had to add the%sto get it to search properly.Yup, it works 90% of the time. Happens on all devices so I suspect Searx is just running into an error of some sort. Too lazy to investigate.
This same behaviour happens to me, but only once in a while.