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create your own search engine using searxng and linux

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The excellent network chuck on youtube made a video the other day about making your own search engine with searxng so i thought id put the steps involved on doing in locally in Linux.

Update our linux installation

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

install docker;

sudo apt install docker.io

install docker compose tool:

sudo apt install docker-compose

navigate to dir where you want to keep searxng, in this example well put it in “/usr/local/”

cd /usr/local

download searxng;

git clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker.git
cd searxng-docker

create secret key;

sudo sed -i "s|ultrasecretkey|$(openssl rand -hex 32)|g" searxng/settings.yml

start up docker containers

sudo docker-compose up

point your browser to;

localhost:8080

Tweaks and settings;

See here for how to change things;

https://docs.searxng.org/admin/engines/settings.html#use-default-settings

refs;
https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker

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How to create a free SSL cert for your website

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One of the most annoying things about having a website is the fact that you have to pay for an SSL cert and that its an extra it shouldnt be.

I dont need an SSL cert!
100% true this website is only a blog but googles chrome browser no will start warning about sites not having an SSL cert and seriously fuck google for that.

Create and install a Free SSL cert for your website with ZeroSSL in the following video.  Its fairly simple and quick to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=117&v=GPcznB74GPs

 

cakephp3

Install a new Cakephp3 Project with composer

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  1. You need the php tool composer which you can get from composer.org
  2. Simply run the following command in the windows command prompt  while in your “c:\xampp\htdocs\” folder; 
    composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app mywebapp

    3.In your htdocs folder you should see a new folder called “my_app_name”

    Example:
    If you wanted to create an application called  “mywebapp” simply enter;

    composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app mywebapp
CakePhp, cakephp3

Cakephp3: Installing Cakephp3

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23666Cakephp 3 depends a lot on using composer, so youll need to get that first.; http://getcomposer.org/

Once youve set up composer you can create a brand new cakephp3 app by;

  1. Going to your web servers “htdocs” folder. I.e if your using xammp it should be; C:xampphtdocs
  2. Open a command windows here and type; 
    composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app my_app_name
  3. Cakephp will create a folder in your htdocs folder called ” my_app_name”
  4. Open http://localhost/my_app_name

Cakephp 3 installation:
http://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/installation.html