diff --git a/docs/admin/installation-searxng.rst b/docs/admin/installation-searxng.rst
index 446f45cd2..73797456a 100644
--- a/docs/admin/installation-searxng.rst
+++ b/docs/admin/installation-searxng.rst
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Modify the ``/etc/searxng/settings.yml`` to your needs:
 
      .. literalinclude:: ../../utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml
         :language: yaml
-        :end-before: # hostnames:
+        :end-before: # preferences:
 
      To see the entire file jump to :origin:`utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml`
 
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index 435862723..6ab6351ad 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ server:
   port: 8888
   bind_address: "127.0.0.1"
   # public URL of the instance, to ensure correct inbound links. Is overwritten
-  # by ${SEARXNG_URL}.
+  # by ${SEARXNG_BASE_URL}.
   base_url: false  # "http://example.com/location"
   # rate limit the number of request on the instance, block some bots.
   # Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_LIMITER}
diff --git a/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml b/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml
index be79810b1..c5ecbd777 100644
--- a/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml
+++ b/utils/templates/etc/searxng/settings.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ general:
 search:
   safe_search: 2
   autocomplete: 'duckduckgo'
+  formats:
+    - html
 
 server:
   # Is overwritten by ${SEARXNG_SECRET}
@@ -16,7 +18,7 @@ server:
   limiter: true
   image_proxy: true
   # public URL of the instance, to ensure correct inbound links. Is overwritten
-  # by ${SEARXNG_URL}.
+  # by ${SEARXNG_BASE_URL}.
   # base_url: http://example.com/location
 
 redis:
@@ -31,30 +33,8 @@ ui:
 #     - autocomplete
 #     - method
 
-enabled_plugins:
-  - 'Hash plugin'
-  - 'Self Information'
-  - 'Tracker URL remover'
-  - 'Ahmia blacklist'
-  # - 'Hostnames plugin'  # see 'hostnames' configuration below
-  # - 'Open Access DOI rewrite'
-
-# plugins:
-#   - only_show_green_results
-
-# hostnames:
-#   replace:
-#     '(.*\.)?youtube\.com$': 'invidious.example.com'
-#     '(.*\.)?youtu\.be$': 'invidious.example.com'
-#   remove:
-#     - '(.*\.)?facebook.com$'
-#   low_priority:
-#     - '(.*\.)?google\.com$'
-#   high_priority:
-#     - '(.*\.)?wikipedia.org$'
-
-engines:
-
+# engines:
+#
 #   - name: fdroid
 #     disabled: false
 #
@@ -64,11 +44,3 @@ engines:
 #   - name: mediathekviewweb
 #     categories: TV
 #     disabled: false
-#
-#   - name: invidious
-#     disabled: false
-#     base_url:
-#       - https://invidious.snopyta.org
-#       - https://invidious.tiekoetter.com
-#       - https://invidio.xamh.de
-#       - https://inv.riverside.rocks