---
title: "Deploy SearXNG"
description: "Privacy-focused metasearch engine."
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/searxng-3
---

# Deploy SearXNG

Privacy-focused metasearch engine.

**[Deploy SearXNG on Railway](https://railway.com/template/searxng-3)**

- **Creator:** Agaz Self-Host
- **Category:** Other

## Template content

### SearXNG

- **Image:** ghcr.io/searxng/searxng:2026.7.26-b060c780d@sha256:d0aaeb14880e6e92bde1518fcc7261e995783367d63d95203383607bef9c6516
- **Health check:** /
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host SearXNG on Railway

SearXNG is a free, open-source metasearch engine that combines results from many search providers without building a personal search profile. It offers a familiar web interface, configurable engines, categories for web, image, news, and other searches, and JSON responses for privacy-conscious applications that need a self-hosted search endpoint.

## About Hosting SearXNG

Hosting SearXNG on Railway requires one public container running the immutable SearXNG image, a public HTTPS domain targeting port `8080`, and a strong `SEARXNG_SECRET` generated when the template is deployed. The container creates `/etc/searxng/settings.yml` from its built-in template when the configuration volume is empty, so no application-specific settings file has to be supplied for the first deployment. The draft persists `/etc/searxng`; SearXNG's `/var/cache/searxng` cache is rebuildable and remains ephemeral because Railway currently permits only one volume per service. Set `SEARXNG_LIMITER=false` when the instance is called by trusted applications that do not provide proxy bot-detection headers.

## Common Use Cases

- Running a private, privacy-respecting alternative to centralized web search
- Providing a self-hosted search backend for dashboards, assistants, and other applications
- Combining web, image, news, video, and specialized search engines behind one configurable interface

## Dependencies for SearXNG Hosting

- The digest-pinned `ghcr.io/searxng/searxng:2026.7.26-b060c780d` container image
- One Railway public service domain targeting container port `8080`
- One Railway persistent volume mounted at `/etc/searxng` for generated configuration
- Outbound network access to the external search engines selected in SearXNG

### Deployment Dependencies

- [SearXNG documentation](https://docs.searxng.org/)
- [SearXNG source repository](https://github.com/searxng/searxng)
- [SearXNG container package](https://github.com/searxng/searxng/pkgs/container/searxng)
- [Reference Umbrel deployment contract](https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/tree/master/searxng)

## Implementation Details

- Single Railway service named `SearXNG`, with no underscore in the service name so the generated hostname remains compatible with Werkzeug.
- The exact image digest is `sha256:d0aaeb14880e6e92bde1518fcc7261e995783367d63d95203383607bef9c6516`.
- Railway exposes HTTPS on port `8080`, checks `/`, and restarts the service with `ON_FAILURE` and up to 10 retries.
- `SEARXNG_SECRET` is generated with Railway's `${{secret(64, "abcdef0123456789")}}` function; `SEARXNG_LIMITER=false` disables the limiter for callers that cannot provide the expected proxy headers.
- The requested Umbrel contract names `/etc/searxng` and `/var/cache/searxng` as separate mounts. Railway's current platform limit allows only one volume per service, so this draft uses `/etc/searxng`; the cache path is non-authoritative and can be recreated.

This is a community-maintained deployment template and does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by SearXNG.

## Why Deploy SearXNG on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying SearXNG on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.


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