Web Search with Searxng

[taowang]

How to use Open WebUI with Searxng instance?

https://docs.openwebui.com/tutorial/web_search

Is it possible to connect Open WebUI and Searxng on Cloudron?

Shoud I just add these env variables to the env.sh file via file manager?

  ENABLE_RAG_WEB_SEARCH: True
  RAG_WEB_SEARCH_ENGINE: "searxng"
  RAG_WEB_SEARCH_RESULT_COUNT: 3
  RAG_WEB_SEARCH_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS: 10
  SEARXNG_QUERY_URL: "http://searxng:8080/search?q=<query>"

And I tried to change the favicon of open webui, but it did not work.

I added STATIC_DIR=/app/data/images
And I replaced the default favicon with my logo.
But after restarting the app, the default favicon came back, and my logo disappeared.

[joseph]

@taowang said in Web Search with Searxng:

Shoud I just add these env variables to the env.sh file via file manager?

yes. Remember to add export keyword in front of those. Each like should be like export ENABLE_RAG_WEB_SEARCH=True

And remember to remove the port 8080 in the SEARXNG_QUERY_URL (on Cloudron, it would be standard https port 443, best to remove the port altogether)/

[joseph]

@taowang said in Web Search with Searxng:

I added STATIC_DIR=/app/data/images

Remember to add export in front (if you missed it)! On Cloudron, if a file ends with .sh, it is a shell script and thus needs export.

Per https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/blob/9518111ed30f921bf921edf123bb0d003c9c6741/backend/config.py#L451 , if you have favicon.png and splash.png it is supposed to work.

[taowang]

@joseph

These logos do not persist. They change back to the default logos after restarts.

And can I change the url to SEARXNG_QUERY_URL: "http://searxng.riverhill.ai/search?q=<query>"

Since I already have a searxng intance outside cloudron.

[joseph]

@taowang let me try this and get back

[taowang]

@joseph

I found the root cause already. There is a script in the config.py file that downloads the logo and favicon from openwebui.com to override the png files in the static folder.

I need to edit config.py and /src/app.html in order to use custom site name, logo and favicon. I uploaded the png files to jsdelivr and changed the code of my local instance.

So on cloudron, you might need to put these 2 files in the /app/data folder so that users can customize the png URLs and site name.

[joseph]

@taowang maybe worth reporting upstream? I think config.py is source code and not a configurable file. Even in their docker it's not stashed.