Basic Configuration

Your YaCy Peer needs some basic information to operate properly

1.  Select a language for the interface:
   
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2.  Use Case: what do you want to do with YaCy:
   

   Community-based web search	Search portal for your own web pages	Intranet Indexing
   Join and support the global network 'freeworld', search the web with an uncensored user-owned search network	Your YaCy installation behaves independently from other peers and you define your own web index by starting your own web crawl. This can be used to search your own web pages or to define a topic-oriented search portal.	Create a search portal for your intranet or web pages or your (shared) file system. URLs may be used with http/https/ftp and a local domain name or IP, or with an URL of the form file:///<path> or smb://<server>/<path>

3.  You may change your peer name
   

   Peer Name:

4.  Your peer can be reached by other peers
   

   Peer Port:

       with SSL (https enabled)

   Configure your router for YaCy using UPnP: 

    

What you should do next:

Your basic configuration is complete! You can now (for example):

• start an uncensored search;
• start your own crawl and contribute to the global index, or create your own private web index;
• set a personal peer profile (optional settings);
• just monitor at the network page what the other peers are doing