# Index and Search Every File on Your Homelab Server using Sist2

DevFeed: [Index and Search Every File on Your Homelab Server using Sist2](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/index-and-search-every-file-on-your-homelab-server-using-sist2-10740.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://noted.lol/sist2/>)

Author: Jeremy

Published: 2026-01-29T12:25:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Noted](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/noted.md>)

Topics: [Homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homelab.md>), [Docker Compose](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker-compose.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [compose](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compose.md>), [docker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docker.md>), [homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/homelab.md>), [self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosted.md>), [self-hosted-file-indexing-and-searching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosted-file-indexing-and-searching.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visualization.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [web-interface](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-interface.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to using Sist2 as a self-hosted file indexing and search engine on a homelab server. It covers deploying Sist2 with Docker Compose, mounting directories for indexing, creating scan jobs, and searching filenames and document contents, including PDFs processed with OCR.

## Source excerpt

Setup your own self-hosted file search engine using sist2.