Hi jf Thanks a lot for your advice earlier. I managed now to run a headless setup: - Runs on a dedicated ubuntu 12.04 server - Indexes files on a NAS - Makes files available for search for several users in the local network - Files are served by an apache2 server using wsgi. That way I can protect the content using authentication / TLS. I did compile the latest recoll source as suggested by you earlier without the X11/QT dependencies. I had to tweak a bit recoll-webui. I made my changes available here: https://github.com/jobe451/recoll-webui cheers Dani