searXNG / upgrade + search engine stats #2845

un99known99 · 2023-09-23T21:09:43Z

un99known99
Sep 23, 2023

Hi,

just switched from searX to searXNG as I read that searX is no longer maintained. So far I really like the searXNG, setup stuff was very similar to searX :)

I do have 2 questions:

how is searXNG upgraded (I installed via step-by-step installation (https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-searxng.html)?
the search stats collected are being purged after restarting searXNG (running it via systemd) - can it be kept permanent?

Thx

Answered by return42

Sep 26, 2023

Sorry for my late response ..

The stats should be permanent if you have redis configured, otherwise they are not.

We plan to store the stats in redis .. but its not implemented yet .. as you have noticed, currently stats get lost after restart.

how is searXNG upgraded

See https://docs.searxng.org/admin/update-searxng.html

The script::

sudo -H ./utils/searxng.sh instance update

was intended for the Installation Scriptprozedure, but should also work when you installed "Step by Step". The steps to update are shown here in the script:

searxng/utils/searxng.sh

Lines 565 to 588 in 1f835a9

     searxng.instance.update() {  
   rst_title "Update SearXNG instance"  
   rst_para "fetch …

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unixfox · 2023-09-26T14:50:11Z

unixfox
Sep 26, 2023

I think with the step by step installation you need to do git pull for updating then restart searxng.

The stats should be permanent if you have redis configured, otherwise they are not.

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return42 · 2023-09-26T16:23:34Z

return42
Sep 26, 2023
Maintainer

Sorry for my late response ..

The stats should be permanent if you have redis configured, otherwise they are not.

We plan to store the stats in redis .. but its not implemented yet .. as you have noticed, currently stats get lost after restart.

how is searXNG upgraded

See https://docs.searxng.org/admin/update-searxng.html

The script::

sudo -H ./utils/searxng.sh instance update

was intended for the Installation Scriptprozedure, but should also work when you installed "Step by Step". The steps to update are shown here in the script:

searxng/utils/searxng.sh

Lines 565 to 588 in 1f835a9

    
           searxng.instance.update() { 
        
               rst_title "Update SearXNG instance" 
        
               rst_para "fetch from $GIT_URL and reset to origin/$GIT_BRANCH" 
        
               tee_stderr 0.3 <<EOF | sudo -H -u "${SERVICE_USER}" -i 2>&1 | prefix_stdout "$_service_prefix" 
        
           cd ${SEARXNG_SRC} 
        
           git fetch origin "$GIT_BRANCH" 
        
           git reset --hard "origin/$GIT_BRANCH" 
        
           pip install -U pip 
        
           pip install -U setuptools 
        
           pip install -U wheel 
        
           pip install -U pyyaml 
        
           pip install -U -e . 
        
           EOF 
        
               rst_para "update instance's settings.yml from ${SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH}" 
        
               DEFAULT_SELECT=2 \ 
        
                             install_template --no-eval \ 
        
                             "${SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH}" \ 
        
                             "${SERVICE_USER}" "${SERVICE_GROUP}" 
        
               sudo -H -i <<EOF 
        
           sed -i -e "s/ultrasecretkey/$(openssl rand -hex 16)/g" "${SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH}" 
        
           EOF 
        
               uWSGI_restart "${SEARXNG_UWSGI_APP}" 
        
           }

more or less its the same what @unixfox wrote above ..

I think with the step by step installation you need to do git pull for updating then restart searxng.

Git pull does not work, when the branch has been rebased, thats why the script uses:

 git fetch origin "$GIT_BRANCH" 
 git reset --hard "origin/$GIT_BRANCH"

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un99known99 · 2023-09-28T12:52:45Z

un99known99
Sep 28, 2023
Author

many thanks for the answers

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un99known99 · 2023-10-03T07:35:10Z

un99known99
Oct 3, 2023
Author

@return42
Hi, just wanted to give feedback, thx for the information with the upgrade script, it ran fine, updated to 2023.10.1 - I guess due to "rolling release" this should be last official commit?

I faced some "error" during upgrade about not installed / not implemented apache/nginx/uWSGI/pkg_install LXC_BASE_PACKAGES, this I would likely see as a "warn", the red "error" give a bad feeling :)

Despite that I guess that's it with upgrade task(s)?

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