Configuration

Installed From Source

If you have built websurfx from source then the configuration file will be located under project directory (codebase) at websurfx/

Note If you have built websurfx with unstable/rolling/edge branch then you can copy the configuration file from websurfx/config.lua located under project directory (codebase) to ~/.config/websurfx/ and make the changes there and rerun the websurfx server. This is only available from unstable/rolling/edge version.

Installed From Package

If you have installed websurfx using the package manager of your Linux distro then the default configuration file will be located at /etc/xdg/websurfx/. You can copy the default config to ~/.config/websurfx/ and make the changes there and rerun the websurfx server.

Some of the configuration options provided in the file are stated below. These are subdivided into the following categories:

General
Server
Website
Cache
Search Engines

General

logging: An option to enable or disable logs.
debug: An option to enable or disable debug mode.
threads: The amount of threads that the app will use to run (the value should be greater than 0).

Server

port: Port number on which server should be launched.
binding_ip_addr: IP address on the which server should be launched.
production_use: Whether to use production mode or not (in other words this option should be used if it is to be used to host it on the server to provide a service to a large number of users). If production_use is set to true. There will be a random delay before sending the request to the search engines, this is to prevent DDoSing the upstream search engines from a large number of simultaneous requests. This is newly added option and hence is only available in the edge version.
request_timeout: Timeout for the search requests sent to the upstream search engines to be fetched (value in seconds).

Website

colorscheme: The colorscheme name which should be used for the website theme (the name should be in accordance to the colorscheme file name present in public/static/colorschemes folder).

By Default we provide 12 colorschemes to choose from these are:

catppuccin-mocha

dark-chocolate

dracula

gruvbox-dark

monokai

nord

oceanic-next

one-dark

solarized-dark

solarized-light

tokyo-night

tomorrow-night

theme: The theme name which should be used for the website (again, the name should be in accordance to the theme file name present in public/static/themes folder).

By Default we provide 1 theme to choose from these are:

simple

Cache

redis_url: Redis connection url address on which the client should connect on.

Search Engines

upstream_search_engines: Select from the different upstream search engines from which the results should be fetched.

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