Server Access Settings

(requires restart)
Here you can restrict access to the server. By default, the access is not limited, because this function is needed to spawn the p2p index-sharing function. If you block access to your server (setting anything else than '*'), then you will also be blocked from using other peers' indexes for search service. However, blocking access may be correct in enterprise environments where you only want to index your company's own web pages.
Filter have to be entered as IP, IP range or using CIDR notation separated by comma (e.g. 192.168.1.1,2001:db8::ff00:42:8329,192.168.1.10-192.168.1.20,192.168.1.30-40,192.168.2.0/24) further details on format see Jetty InetAddressSet documentation.
The staticIP can help that your peer can be reached by other peers in case that your peer is behind a firewall or proxy. You can create a tunnel through the firewall/proxy (look out for 'tunneling through https proxy with connect command') and create an access point for incoming connections. This access address can be set here (either as IP number or domain name). If the address of outgoing connections is equal to the address of incoming connections, you don't need to set anything here, please leave it blank.
ATTENTION: Your current IP is recognized as "#[clientIP]#". If the value you enter here does not match with this IP, you will not be able to access the server pages anymore.
The publicPort can help that your peer can be reached by other peers in case that your peer is behind a reverse proxy. If the port used to access YaCy is the same port the application is listening on, you don't need to set anything here, please leave it blank.

(requires restart)
Set this to avoid error-messages like 'proxy use not allowed / granted' on accessing your Peer by its hostname. Virtual host for httpdFileServlet access for example http://FILEHOST/ shall access the file servlet and return the defaultFile at rootPath either way, http://FILEHOST/ denotes the same as http://localhost:<port>/ for the preconfigured value 'localpeer', the URL is: http://localpeer/.
Server Port Settings
This is the main port for all http communication (default is 8090). A change requires a restart.
This is the port to connect via https (default is 8443). A change requires a restart.
This is the local port on the loopback address (127.0.0.1 or :1) to listen for a shutdown signal to stop the YaCy server (-1 disables the shutdown port, recommended default is 8005). A change requires a restart.
Compression settings
When checked (default), HTTP responses can be compressed using gzip. The requesting user-agent (a web browser, another YaCy peer or any other tool) uses the header 'Accept-Encoding' to tell whether it accepts gzip compression or not. This adds some processing overhead, but can significantly reduce the amount of bytes transmitted over the network.
Changes need a server restart.