The INSTALL document details a manual Aurweb setup, but Docker images are also provided here to avoid the complications of database configuration (and so forth).

Naturally, both docker and docker-compose must be installed, and your Docker service must be started:

systemctl start docker.service

The main image - aurweb - must be built manually:

docker compose build

With the above steps complete, you can bring up an initial cluster:

docker compose up

Subsequent runs will be done with start instead of up. The cluster can be stopped with docker compose stop.

With a running cluster, execute the following in a new terminal:

docker compose run test

Before you can make meaningful queries to the cluster, it needs some data. Luckily such data can be generated.

docker compose exec fastapi /bin/bash
pacman -S words fortune-mod
./schema/gendummydata.py dummy.sql
mariadb aurweb < dummy.sql

The generation script may prompt you to install other Arch packages before it can proceed.

The Fast (Python) API runs on Port 8444. You can query one like so:

curl -k "https://localhost:8444/rpc/?v=5&type=search&arg=python"

-k bypasses local certificate issues that curl will otherwise complain about.