Two local searx instances: settings are messed up

[Twix53791]

OS: arch linux
**searx: ** just installed from github with the install script searxng.sh

Hi, I am tring to run on my local machine two searx instances with two different languages : one in english, one in french. I would like to set two differents settings.yml.

I run two services : uwsgi@searxng.service and uwsgi@searxfr.service.

journalctl -xeu uwsgi@searxng.service gives:

A start job for unit uwsgi@searxng.service has begun execution.
...
uwsgi[19893]: [uWSGI] getting INI configuration from /etc/uwsgi/searxng.ini

journalctl -xeu uwsgi@searxfr.service gives:

A start job for unit uwsgi@searxfr.service has begun execution.
...
uwsgi[20272]: [uWSGI] getting INI configuration from /etc/uwsgi/searxfr.ini

searxng.ini:

env = SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH=/etc/searxng/settingsen.yml
...
http = 127.0.0.1:8888

searxfr.ini:

env = SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH=/etc/searxng/settingsfr.yml
...
http = 127.0.0.2:8888

settingsen.yml

use_default_settings: true

general:
  debug: false
  instance_name: "SearXNG"

search:
  safe_search: 0
  autocomplete: 'duckduckgo'
  default_lang: 'en-US'
  languages:
    - all
    - en
    - en-US
    - en-GB
    - it-IT
    - fr-FR
    - de
    - es
    - ru-RU

settingsfr.yml:

use_default_settings: true

general:
  debug: false
  instance_name: "SearXNG"

search:
  safe_search: 0
  autocomplete: 'duckduckgo'
  default_lang: 'fr-FR'
  languages:
    - en
    - en-US
    - fr
    - fr-FR

I use nginx to run the two servers. It works, I ve got 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, but the settings are messed up. Actually, if I run the searxfr.service last, both instances have the settingsfr.yml settings, and if I run the searxng.service last, the contrary...

Thanks for any clue!

[unixfox]

you are probably going to have difficulties as the install script was not meant to handle such cases.

maybe if you use docker you could do it more easily.

[Twix53791]

Hi, well, until now I avoided to use docker in all my linux set up, I would like to find a way. Actually, on firefox, it is possible to handle two different preferences set in the browser for the server 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, and I can set different language in the preferences. For now, in qutebrowser, my main browser, this doesn't work, I am gonna try to find why...

[Twix53791]

maybe there is a way to define different cookies for two different uwsgi instances?
or maybe there is another way to use an alternate language? In fact, my goal is really simple : be able to switch very easilly from one language to another, using currently the qutebrowser bang system: ! search run the searxfr when the normal search run the searxng, default one in english.

[Twix53791]

UPDATE :

I found a way... I fix my qutebrowser problem (I had to accept all cookies without blocking third party cookies).
I abadonned the idea to have different settings.yml files : now all the uwsgi services use the same setttings.yml file.
The languages are set with the cookies of the two instances, wich are not the same has the ip adress (and not only the port) is different. It works fine.