External searxng

[stanthewizzard]

Hello
I'm able to ping an external searxng through docker network

I need to add in the compose:
environment:
- SEARXNG_API_URL=http://containername:8080
- SEARXNG_SECRET=pre-existingapikey

Am I right ?
Thanks for help

[allentd]

Just did that yesterday, working very well.

My existing SearXNG don't have any secret key setup, so only add Searxng IP address or domain name to the perplexica-backend environment and in config.toml (not sure if this one is needed). I think docker hostname won't work for external Searxng but if you can ping maybe it will do.

• SEARXNG_API_URL=http://searxng-ip-address:8080

Remove everything Searxng related from docker compose file, lines 2 to 11 and 19 to 20 (perplexica-backend depends_on: - searxng). And enable Json format on your external Searxng.

I'm using build command, the provided docker image doesn't work with reverse proxy.

[stanthewizzard]

I need to verify json settings