Important
Since 4 July 2025, official images are now in parity with our custom images. Migrate to the official images following this guide.
Warning
EOL cycle states; The following milestones have been established:
Freeze: 5 July 2025, 01:00 (GMT)
Archive: 18 July 2025, 01:00~ (GMT)
Purge: 4 January 2026, 06:00~ (GMT)
By default, this container will run as root. If needed, you can switch to the rootless searxng user.
When switching to the rootless searxng user, ensure you change ownership permissions on mounted volumes.
The container creates these volumes:
CONFIG_PATH: /searxng/config (Location for configuration storage, like settings.yml...)DATA_PATH: /searxng/data (Location for data storage, like the favicon database...)
If for some reason you need to change the default volume paths, ensure you also update the corresponding environment variables to match your locations.