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 cannot be reached from outside (which is not fatal, but would be good for the YaCy network); please open your firewall for this port and/or set a virtual server option in your router to allow connections on this port. Opening a router port is not a YaCy-specific task; you can see instruction videos everywhere in the internet, just search for Open Ports on a <our-router-type> Router and add your router type as search term. However: if you fail to open a router port, you can nevertheless use YaCy with full functionality, the only function that is missing is on the side of the other YaCy users because they cannot see your peer.
   

   Peer Port:

       with SSL (https enabled)

   Configure your router for YaCy using UPnP: 

    

What you should do next:

You did not open a port in your firewall or your router does not forward the server port to your peer. This is needed if you want to fully participate in the YaCy network. You can also use your peer without opening it, but this is not recomended.