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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
- Website
- Cache
- Search Engines
General
- logging: An option to enable or disable logs.
- debug: An option to enable or disable debug mode.
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. This is newly added option and hence is only available in the edge version.
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 9 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.
Search Engines
- upstream_search_engines: Select from the different upstream search engines from which the results should be fetched.