Not able to access searxng docker through url

[lucaliceti]

Trying to access searxng after starting it with sudo docker-compose up -d And was able to get searxng, redis, and caddy running. But trying to access the two addresses found in the default yaml file, http://localhost:80 gives me a blank page, and 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 just gets googled. Inputing '127.0.0.1' also just gives me a blank page.

[mrwormo]

Hello @lucaliceti

Did you do everything that was written in the “How use it” section ?
Specifically those points :

• Edit the .env file to set the hostname and an email
• Generate the secret key sed -i "s|ultrasecretkey|$(openssl rand -hex 32)|g" searxng/settings.yml
• Edit the searxng/settings.yml file according to your need

Surely you can find help on Matrix too (because your problem is not really an issue imo) : https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org

(By the way, it's not a good idea to launch docker-compose stack with a sudo. You should check docker's install documentation : https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ and https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/).

[lucaliceti]

I went through all the directions, I simply get a blank page when entering localhost in my browser, I also ran the command you told me again and it still didn't work. Do you know if there are any docker logs that could maybe tell we why I am having this? Thank you.

[Excelling-At-Excel]

So, out of curiousity, when you're going into your browser are you doing:
127.0.0.1:8080:8080 exactly as it's written to the left? Because if so, instead just do this:
127.0.0.1:8080 And that should fix it

[lucaliceti]

Going to 127.0.0.1:8080. Gives me a "Connection was reset" error. But "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" gives me a blank page with no visible errors:

[luckkmaxx]

Maybe are you trying to access from other different host than docker is installed from? If you have a headless docker host (so the only way to manage it is from other host), then the "127.0.0.1" isnt for you.
I had the same issue or similar, and I had to edit my docker-compose.yaml to listen at 0.0.0.0.
So the ports section of searxng service should be like:

ports:
     - "0.0.0.0:8080:8080"

This way will listen on all IPs, and should fix your problem.

[lucaliceti]

I change the ip address in the docker-compose.yaml file to 0.0.0.0:8080:8080, then attempted to access it by typing 0.0.0.0 and it gave me a blank page. 0.0.0.0:8080 gave me "The connection was reset" and 0.0.0.0:8080:8080 just searched it into google. Should I try any other way?
P.S. Trying to access 127.0.0.1 still gives me a blank page, don't know if that means anything.

[luckkmaxx]

no no. you are too wrong and not understanding what that zeros does in docker-compose file.
this only means wich the server will lisen to any person who wants to access while its ip is inside the range we set (0.0.0.0 means any ip from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.254.

apart of this, YOU have to set the SERVER IP + PORT.
So what you have to type in your browser is:
YOURSERVERLOCALIP:8080
nothing else

Or if you are trying to access your server from outside lan, then:
YOURHOMEPUBLICIP:8080
In this second case you must forward port 8080 to your server (this is done on your router)

[luckkmaxx]

btw, 127.0.0.1 is an ip wich ALWAYS mean "myself", wherever you are working on. so 127.0.0.1 cant access to any other machine than itself

[lucaliceti]

I am confused on what I am supposed to do. I am trying to self host searxng, thus what I mean with localhost, I am running docker-compose up in the searxng-docker directory, with no errors, then trying to access it through localhost (getting Unable to connect) or 127.0.0.1 (blank page). I have no intent on running it on a server.

[luckkmaxx]

I want to help you. Just tell me the context where you are developing.

• Is the computer a home computer?
• Do you have direct access to it?
• Has it a display from where you operate itself?
• Is the same from where you navigate to HOST_IP:HOST_PORT?

You could paste here your whole docker-compose.yaml and .env files, or directly share the files. Dont worry about your privacy, there is not any sensitive data, except if you filled the SEARXNG_HOSTNAME string with a public domain, it this case please change it to XXXXXX or what else before posting.

Lets see if I can help you

[luckkmaxx]

BTW, now we are in the future 😏 and you could use the ChatGPT IA to learn more about almost any thing. He/She/It can help you sometimes better than a forum post, with real time examples and pointing you in the right direction.
Personally I use it sometimes and its an incredible tool.