Howto configure P2P search engine YaCy for LAN and WWW

YaCy is a free distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks "wikipedia YaCy".

After installation, you can use it to search the WWW, but not your own computer.

However, I have found a guide that shows how to configure it for the LAN ("set up YaCy on LAN without public network").

So I hope it might be configurable so it can be used for both.

Maybe you have a idear? I would like to use it in Linux Lubuntu.

Solution

First of all, Check Use Cases and Network, configure it as you need. Share URLs white indexing (crawling), accept remote ones or not.

After that you need to crawl pages you want to search. You can schedule your crawl to re crawl after period of time.

After those 2 steps you can search local http/https/ftp content, which you crawled.