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Installed From Source
If you have built websurfx
from the source then the configuration file will be located under the project directory (codebase) at websurfx/
If you have built websurfx with an unstable/rolling/edge branch then you can copy the configuration file from
websurfx/config.lua
located under the 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/
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 sending sensitive content like NSFW search results, etc.
- Level 3 - With this level the regex-based filter lists are used alongside level 2 to filter more search results that have slipped in or custom results that need 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 a 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 by the colorscheme file name present in the
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 that should be used for the website (again, the name should be by the theme file name present in the
public/static/themes
folder).
By Default we provide 1 theme to choose from these are:
- simple
- animation: The animation name that should be used for the website (again, the name should be by the animation file name present in the
public/static/animations
folder).
By Default we provide 1 animation to choose from these are:
- simple-frosted-glow
Cache
- redis_url: Redis connection URL address on which the client should connect.
Note This option can be commented out if you have compiled the app without the
redis-cache
feature. For more information, See building.
- cache_expiry_time: The maximum time the server will store the cache for, after which it flushs/removes/expires/invalidates the cached results. (value provided to this option should be in seconds and the value should be greater than or equal to 60 seconds).
Search Engines
- upstream_search_engines: Select from the different upstream search engines from which the results should be fetched.