[GH-ISSUE #173] [QUESTION] Getting autocomplete from search bar (firefox) working with nginx reverse proxy #125

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opened 2026-02-25 20:34:57 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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2026-02-25 20:34:57 +03:00

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Originally created by @somebody-somewhere-over-the-rainbow on GitHub (Jan 19, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/173

Hi all,

i am trying to get whoogle to provide autocomplete suggestions via the search bar in firefox using nginx as a reverse proxy. It works directly (via port 5000) but the proxy seems to not pass everything needed for the autocomplete function to work.
I kept my server block for whoogle as simple as possible to eliminate any potential configuration issues:

server {
  server_name search.mydomain.com;
  listen 443 ssl http2;
  include /etc/nginx/ssl.conf; 
  error_log /var/log/nginx/whoogle_error.log error;
  access_log /var/log/nginx/whoogle_access.log combined;

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://whoogle:5000;
    }

any suggestions on how to fix this?

Originally created by @somebody-somewhere-over-the-rainbow on GitHub (Jan 19, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/issues/173 Hi all, i am trying to get whoogle to provide autocomplete suggestions via the search bar in firefox using nginx as a reverse proxy. It works directly (via port 5000) but the proxy seems to not pass everything needed for the autocomplete function to work. I kept my server block for whoogle as simple as possible to eliminate any potential configuration issues: ``` server { server_name search.mydomain.com; listen 443 ssl http2; include /etc/nginx/ssl.conf; error_log /var/log/nginx/whoogle_error.log error; access_log /var/log/nginx/whoogle_access.log combined; location / { proxy_pass http://whoogle:5000; } ``` any suggestions on how to fix this?

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@somebody-somewhere-over-the-rainbow commented on GitHub (Jan 23, 2021):

I realized that this is not an issue with the proxy but with Firefox on iOS. Autocomplete works on the desktop browser but not on iOS. I will close this one an open an issue

@somebody-somewhere-over-the-rainbow commented on GitHub (Jan 23, 2021): I realized that this is not an issue with the proxy but with Firefox on iOS. Autocomplete works on the desktop browser but not on iOS. I will close this one an open an issue