Today I decided to install SearxNG, just to for $h1ts and giggles, and to avoid a little bit of tracking by those creeps at Google and Bing.
I started wit a clean Debian 12 LXC container on my Proxmox server and used the installation script route. I just needed to:
- Create a non-root user . DO NOT call this user searxng, this is the user the install script creates for you, if it already exists, the script will fail
- Add this user to the the sudo group
- Install sudo, git and curl
- Clone the install repo
- Run the install script
- Run the nginx setup script
That’s it. The search page will be available in http://<ip-address>/searxng
They are pretty good, you get a mix of bing, duck, and google results that are ranked. You can check out a public instance at https://SearX.space
Thanks for the suggestion to try it. I tried one and it seemed fine, so I spun a container up on my unraid box. Super easy install.