cannot change binding port

[xingpingcn]

i set SEARXNG_PORT to 8081 in docker-compose.yml , but searxng still listen to 8080. i can access to searxng througt 127.0.0.1:10915 because it route traffic to 8080 while it is set to 8081 i cannot access searxng.

what's more, i find that searxng is set to listening to 8888 by default in /settings.yml, which is confusing.

[blakkd]

Hey @xingpingcn!
I'm new to searxng, but I also needed to change the default listening port as well. I'm not sure about your configuration needs which seems more complex than mine.
For my use case, I only need to have it exposed on localhost.

But just in case, and because my configuration files such as setting.yml and docker-compose.yaml are different from yours, I would suggest that you run git pull again.

Here are the only changes I had to do to make it listen to 8081 instead of 8080:

Caddyfile

-reverse_proxy localhost:8080
+reverse_proxy localhost:8081

docker-compose.yaml

searxng:
     networks:
       - searxng
     ports:
-      - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
+      - "127.0.0.1:8081:8080"

But I guess you might have figured it out since all this time :D
At least maybe I'll motivate you to give searxng a new try!

[blakkd]

Sorry, I couldn't save settings, so I also had to change some other things in docker-compose.yaml.

Here are all the final changes:

.env

-# SEARXNG_HOSTNAME=<host>
+SEARXNG_HOSTNAME=http://127.0.0.1:8081

Caddyfile

 # SearXNG
-reverse_proxy localhost:8080
+reverse_proxy localhost:8081

docker-compose.yaml

services:
  caddy
     environment:
-      - SEARXNG_HOSTNAME=${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME:-http://localhost}
+      - SEARXNG_HOSTNAME=${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME}

  searxng
     ports:
-      - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
+      - "127.0.0.1:8081:8080"

     environment:
-      - SEARXNG_BASE_URL=https://${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME:-localhost}/
+      - SEARXNG_BASE_URL=${SEARXNG_HOSTNAME}/

I'm not really sure I'm doing the things correctly, but that made it work.