[mod] check secret_key when searx.webapp is imported

Without this commit the module searx checks the secret_key value.

With this commit, make docs, utils/standalone_searx.py,
utils/fetch_firefox_version.py works without SEARX_DEBUG=1

For reference see https://github.com/searx/searx/pull/2386

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/searx/__init__.py b/searx/__init__.py
index 9bbc7c8c3..08e67f69d 100644
--- a/searx/__init__.py
+++ b/searx/__init__.py
@@ -60,7 +60,3 @@ if 'SEARX_SECRET' in environ:
     settings['server']['secret_key'] = environ['SEARX_SECRET']
 if 'SEARX_BIND_ADDRESS' in environ:
     settings['server']['bind_address'] = environ['SEARX_BIND_ADDRESS']
-
-if not searx_debug and settings['server']['secret_key'] == 'ultrasecretkey':
-    logger.error('server.secret_key is not changed. Please use something else instead of ultrasecretkey.')
-    exit(1)
diff --git a/searx/webapp.py b/searx/webapp.py
index 5076355d0..49750d210 100755
--- a/searx/webapp.py
+++ b/searx/webapp.py
@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ from searx.metrology.error_recorder import errors_per_engines
 from werkzeug.serving import WSGIRequestHandler
 WSGIRequestHandler.protocol_version = "HTTP/{}".format(settings['server'].get('http_protocol_version', '1.0'))
 
+# check secret_key
+if not searx_debug and settings['server']['secret_key'] == 'ultrasecretkey':
+    logger.error('server.secret_key is not changed. Please use something else instead of ultrasecretkey.')
+    exit(1)
+
 # about static
 static_path = get_resources_directory(searx_dir, 'static', settings['ui']['static_path'])
 logger.debug('static directory is %s', static_path)