Perplexica Web Reasearch AI

Preperation

apt update && apt upgrade -y
apt install docker.io docker-compose git -y

Download The Project

git clone https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica
cd Perplexica
mv sample.config.toml config.toml
mv .env.example .env
nano config.toml

Edit config.toml

run the following command

nano config.toml

make sure it looks like the following

[GENERAL]
SIMILARITY_MEASURE = "cosine"
KEEP_ALIVE = "5m"

[MODELS.OPENAI]
API_KEY = ""

[MODELS.GROQ]
API_KEY = ""

[MODELS.ANTHROPIC]
API_KEY = ""

[MODELS.GEMINI]
API_KEY = ""

[MODELS.CUSTOM_OPENAI]
API_KEY = ""
API_URL = ""
MODEL_NAME = ""

[MODELS.OLLAMA]
API_URL = "http://ollama:11434"

[API_ENDPOINTS]
SEARXNG = "http://searxng:8080"

Edit The Docker Compose File

run the following command

nano docker-compose.yaml

Make Sure It Looks Like The following

services:
  searxng:
    image: docker.io/searxng/searxng:latest
    volumes:
      - ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw
    ports:
      - 4000:8080
    networks:
      - perplexica-network
    restart: unless-stopped

  ollama:
    image: ollama/ollama:latest
    ports:
      - "11434:11434"
    volumes:
      - ollama_data:/root/.ollama
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              count: all
              capabilities: [gpu]
    environment:
      - OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0:11434
    networks:
      - perplexica-network
    restart: unless-stopped

  app:
    image: itzcrazykns1337/perplexica:main
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: app.dockerfile
    environment:
      - SEARXNG_API_URL=http://searxng:8080
      - OLLAMA_API_URL=http://ollama:11434    # Added Ollama API URL
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    networks:
      - perplexica-network
    volumes:
      - backend-dbstore:/home/perplexica/data
      - uploads:/home/perplexica/uploads
      - ./config.toml:/home/perplexica/config.toml
    depends_on:
      - ollama  #Ensure ollama is started first
    restart: unless-stopped

networks:
  perplexica-network:

volumes:
  backend-dbstore:
  uploads:
  ollama_data:    # Add ollama volume so it does not get lost

Finally - Execute Docker Compose

run the following command

docker-compose down && docker-compose up --build -d