YaCy documentation

Basics

• Download and installation - guide for unix, windows and macos
• FAQ - Frequently asked questions
• Readme - at github.com
• Use cases
• Features

Installation

• System Requirements
• Unix full installation guide - with systemd or runit, nginx, let's encrypt
• Installation of YaCy on Debian
  • YaCy High-Availability Configuration on Debian
  • Headless - YaCy on a Remote Server
  • Shrink Debian by removing all graphical features to turn it into a headless server
  • Set a static IP to a debian server
• Arch Install Guide
• HowTo install YaCy on Gentoo
• GNU Install
• FreeBSD Install Guide
• Install YaCy-packages from OpenSUSE Build Service
• Set up Raspberry Pi with YaCy

Operation

• Index Creation - Crawl Start
• Setting the ranking rules
• YaCy config settings
• RWI index distribution
• Autoupdate
• Portforwarding
• Using the YaCy Front-End over HTTPS
• Performance Tuning
• Logging in YaCy
• YaCy and Tor
• Network Definition

Developers

• How to contribute
• Description of the YaCy Distributed Web Search Engine - scientific paper describing the technology
• Solr and YaCy integration
• YaCy and Solr Cloud
• Crawler API
• javadoc - generated documentation for YaCy's java source code

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