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<h1>Searx admin interface: manage your instance from your browser<a class="headerlink" href="#searx-admin-interface-manage-your-instance-from-your-browser" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>One of the biggest advantages of searx is being extremely customizable. But at first it can be daunting to newcomers.
A barrier of taking advantage of this feature is our ugly settings file which is sometimes hard to understand and edit.</p>
<p>To make self-hosting searx more accessible a new tool is introduced, called <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">searx-admin</span></code>.
It is a web application which is capable of managing your instance and manipulating its settings via a web UI.
It aims to replace editing of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">settings.yml</span></code> for less experienced administrators or people
who prefer graphical admin interfaces.</p>
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<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="../_images/searx-admin-engines.png"><img alt="Screenshot of engine list" src="../_images/searx-admin-engines.png" style="width: 682.0px; height: 352.5px;" /></a>
<p class="caption"><span class="caption-text">Configuration page of engines</span></p>
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<p>Since <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">searx-admin</span></code> acts as a supervisor for searx, we have decided to implement it
as a standalone tool instead of part of searx. Another reason for making it a standalone
tool is that the codebase and dependencies of searx should not grow because of a fully optional feature,
which does not affect existing instances.</p>
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<h2>Installation<a class="headerlink" href="#installation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Installation guide can be found in the repository of searx-admin:
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/kvch/searx-admin#installation--usage">https://github.com/kvch/searx-admin#installation–usage</a></p>
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<h2>Acknowledgements<a class="headerlink" href="#acknowledgements" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>This development was sponsored by <a class="reference external" href="https://nlnet.nl/">NLnet Foundation</a>.</p>
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<div class="line">Happy hacking.</div>
<div class="line">kvch // 2017.08.22 21:25</div>
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