Configuration

Installed From Source

If you have built websurfx from source then the configuration file will be located under project directory (codebase) at websurfx/

Note If you have built websurfx with unstable/rolling/edge branch then you can copy the configuration file from websurfx/config.lua located under project directory (codebase) to ~/.config/websurfx/ and make the changes there and rerun the websurfx server. This is only available from unstable/rolling/edge version.

Installed From Package

If you have installed websurfx using the package manager of your Linux distro then the default configuration file will be located at /etc/xdg/websurfx/. You can copy the default config to ~/.config/websurfx/ and make the changes there and rerun the websurfx server.

Some of the configuration options provided in the file are stated below. These are subdivided into the following categories:

General
Server
Search
Website
Cache
Search Engines

General

logging: An option to enable or disable logs.
debug: An option to enable or disable debug mode.
threads: The amount of threads that the app will use to run (the value should be greater than 0).

Server

port: Port number on which server should be launched.
binding_ip_addr: IP address on the which server should be launched.
production_use: Whether to use production mode or not (in other words this option should be used if it is to be used to host it on the server to provide a service to a large number of users). If production_use is set to true. There will be a random delay before sending the request to the search engines, this is to prevent DDoSing the upstream search engines from a large number of simultaneous requests.
request_timeout: Timeout for the search requests sent to the upstream search engines to be fetched (value in seconds).
rate_limiter: The configuration option to configure rate limiting on the search engine website.

Search

safe_search: This option is used to configure the search filtering based on different safe search levels. (value a number between 0 to 4)

This option provides 4 levels of search filtering:

Level 0 - With this level no search filtering occurs.

Level 1 - With this level some search filtering occurs.

Level 2 - With this level the upstream search engines are restricted to send sensitive contents like NSFW search results, etc.

Level 3 - With this level the regex based filter lists is used alongside level 2 to filter more search results that have slipped in or custom results that needs to be filtered using the filter lists.

Level 4 - This level is similar to level 3 except in this level the regex based filter lists are used to disallow users to search sensitive or disallowed content. This level could be useful if you are parent or someone who wants to completely disallow their kids or yourself from watching sensitive content.

Website

colorscheme: The colorscheme name which should be used for the website theme (the name should be in accordance to the colorscheme file name present in public/static/colorschemes folder).

By Default we provide 12 colorschemes to choose from these are:

catppuccin-mocha

dark-chocolate

dracula

gruvbox-dark

monokai

nord

oceanic-next

one-dark

solarized-dark

solarized-light

tokyo-night

tomorrow-night

theme: The theme name which should be used for the website (again, the name should be in accordance to the theme file name present in public/static/themes folder).

By Default we provide 1 theme to choose from these are:

simple

Cache

redis_url: Redis connection url address on which the client should connect on.

Note This option can be commented out if you have compiled the app without the redis-cache feature. For more information, See building.

Search Engines

upstream_search_engines: Select from the different upstream search engines from which the results should be fetched.

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