Enable "Meilisearch" for local chat search

[p44]

Hi everyone.

I’m running LibreChat and I would like to enable the internal Search feature which requires Meilisearch.

According to the LibreChat documentation, search functionality depends on Meilisearch running and being connected via environment variables (SEARCH=true, MEILI_HOST, MEILI_MASTER_KEY, etc.).

For my knowledge is little bit complicated to put hands on those steps (eg. open 7700 port). Also, I didn't understand if settings are persistent or not.

Has anyone here already enabled Meilisearch?

I've another question about privacy: when enabling the search feature with Meilisearch, will conversations be indexed and stored fully locally inside my Cloudron/Meilisearch instance, or is there any data being sent to Meilisearch servers?

Any guidance would be very much appreciated

Thanks

[joseph]

I think the port 7700 is for the server where Meili is running . You don't have to open anything on Cloudron server.

[p44]

@joseph Thanks for your prompt response.

Changes and modifications will be persistent (App restart or update)?

About data: will be shared or sent somewhere outside Cloudron instance?

Thanks a lot

[joseph]

@p44 I think you have to create your own meili installation and set those env vars to your meili installation. I guess data sent from the Cloudron app instance to the meli instance (not sure if this was your question). Since those variables are not touched by the package, I expect the modifications to be persistent.

[p44]

@joseph ok thanks