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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/nix
 

I've been trying to create a public instance of SearXNG by using NixOS, Cloudflare and Nginx, but I can't seem to make it open to the internet and I've ran out of ideas. Is there anything I'm overlooking?

services.searx = {
    enable = true;
    redisCreateLocally = true;
        limiterSettings = {
      real_ip = {
        x_for = 1;

        ipv4_prefix = 32;
        ipv6_prefix = 56;
      };
    botdetection = {
        ip_limit = {
          filter_link_local = true;
          link_token = true;
        };
        ip_lists = {
          pass_ip = [
            "192.168.0.0/16"
            "fe80::/10"
          ];
          pass_searxng_org = true;
        };
      };
    };
    runInUwsgi = true;
    uwsgiConfig = {
      socket = "/run/searx/searx.sock";
      http = ":8888";
      chmod-socket = "660";
      disable-logging = true;
    };
    settings = {
      general = {
        debug = false;
        instance_name = "SearXNG Instance";
        donation_url = false;
        contact_url = false;
        enable_metrics = false;
      };

      ui = {
        static_use_hash = true;
        theme_args.simple_style = "dark";
        query_in_title = true;
        center_alignment = true;
        results_on_new_tab = false;
      };

      search = {
        safe_search = 2;
        autocomplete_min = 2;
        autocomplete = "duckduckgo";
      };

      server = {
        port = 8888;
        bind_address = "0.0.0.0";
        secret_key = config.sops.secrets.searx.path;
        image_proxy = true;
        method = "GET";

        default_locale = "en";
        default_lang = "en-US";
        base_url = "https://myinstance.org";
        public_instance = true;
      };
      engines = lib.mapAttrsToList (name: value: {inherit name;} // value) {
        "duckduckgo".disabled = false;
        "brave".disabled = true;
      };
      outgoing = {
        request_timeout = 5.0;
        max_request_timeout = 15.0;
        pool_connections = 100;
        pool_maxsize = 15;
        enable_http2 = true;
      };
    };
  };
  services.nginx = {
    enable = true;
    recommendedGzipSettings = true;
    recommendedOptimisation = true;
    recommendedProxySettings = true;
    recommendedTlsSettings = true;
    virtualHosts = {
      "myinstance.org" = {
        forceSSL = true;
        sslCertificate = config.sops.secrets."SSL-Certificates/Cloudflare/Cert".path;
        sslCertificateKey = config.sops.secrets."SSL-Certificates/Cloudflare/Key".path;
        locations = {
          "/" = {
            extraConfig = ''
              uwsgi_pass unix:${config.services.searx.uwsgiConfig.socket};
            '';
          };
        };
      };
    };
  };
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, good point about the localhost. The ports are fine however. The actual error that I'm getting is coming from nginx: *1 connect() to unix:/run/searx/searx.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream. I have added the searx and nginx groups to my main user (which I have to find a workout for anyway, since it might prove to be a security problem), yet it still does not work.

[–] onlinepersona 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oooh! Check the users of searx and nginx! They don't use your user but their own ones. You might have to add the searx user to the nginx user's group, or vice versa, or a new common group.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Awesome, you were right! Thank you!

systemd.services.nginx.serviceConfig.ProtectHome = false;
users.groups.searx.members = [ "nginx" ];

For anyone looking to test it out, it's https://search.teatastic.org/

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Great! Thanks for sharing the solution 👍 (And the instance)

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