diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 0782d122b..4a4b27682 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,96 +1,49 @@
-FROM alpine:3.20
-ENTRYPOINT ["/sbin/tini","--","/usr/local/searxng/dockerfiles/docker-entrypoint.sh"]
-EXPOSE 8080
-VOLUME /etc/searxng
 
-ARG SEARXNG_GID=977
-ARG SEARXNG_UID=977
+FROM python:3.9-slim
 
-RUN addgroup -g ${SEARXNG_GID} searxng && \
-    adduser -u ${SEARXNG_UID} -D -h /usr/local/searxng -s /bin/sh -G searxng searxng
+# Install necessary system dependencies
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    python3-dev \
+    python3-babel \
+    python3-venv \
+    uwsgi \
+    uwsgi-plugin-python3 \
+    git \
+    build-essential \
+    libxslt-dev \
+    zlib1g-dev \
+    libffi-dev \
+    libssl-dev && \
+    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-ENV INSTANCE_NAME=searxng \
-    AUTOCOMPLETE= \
-    BASE_URL= \
-    MORTY_KEY= \
-    MORTY_URL= \
-    SEARXNG_SETTINGS_PATH=/etc/searxng/settings.yml \
-    UWSGI_SETTINGS_PATH=/etc/searxng/uwsgi.ini \
-    UWSGI_WORKERS=%k \
-    UWSGI_THREADS=4
+# Create user and directory structure
+RUN useradd --shell /bin/bash --system --home-dir /usr/local/searxng --comment 'Privacy-respecting metasearch engine' searxng && \
+    mkdir -p /usr/local/searxng && \
+    chown -R searxng:searxng /usr/local/searxng
 
+# Switch to non-root user
+USER searxng
+
+# Set working directory
 WORKDIR /usr/local/searxng
 
-COPY requirements.txt ./requirements.txt
+# Clone SearXNG repository
+RUN git clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src
 
-RUN apk add --no-cache -t build-dependencies \
-    build-base \
-    py3-setuptools \
-    python3-dev \
-    libffi-dev \
-    libxslt-dev \
-    libxml2-dev \
-    openssl-dev \
-    tar \
-    git \
- && apk add --no-cache \
-    ca-certificates \
-    python3 \
-    py3-pip \
-    libxml2 \
-    libxslt \
-    openssl \
-    tini \
-    uwsgi \
-    uwsgi-python3 \
-    brotli
+# Set up Python virtual environment
+RUN python3 -m venv /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv && \
+    echo "source /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/activate" >> ~/.bashrc
 
-# For 32bit arm architecture install pydantic from the alpine repos instead of requirements.txt
-ARG TARGETARCH
-RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm" ]; then \
-        apk add --no-cache py3-pydantic && pip install --no-cache --break-system-packages -r <(grep -v '^pydantic' requirements.txt); \
-    else \
-        pip install --no-cache --break-system-packages -r requirements.txt; \
-    fi
- RUN apk del build-dependencies \
- && rm -rf /root/.cache
+# Activate virtual environment and install dependencies
+RUN /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/pip install -U pip setuptools wheel pyyaml && \
+    cd /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src && \
+    /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/pip install --use-pep517 --no-build-isolation -r /app/requirements.txt
 
-COPY --chown=searxng:searxng dockerfiles ./dockerfiles
-COPY --chown=searxng:searxng searx ./searx
+# Install additional dependencies
+RUN /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/pip install uwsgi
 
-ARG TIMESTAMP_SETTINGS=0
-ARG TIMESTAMP_UWSGI=0
-ARG VERSION_GITCOMMIT=unknown
+# Expose the port
+EXPOSE 8888
 
-RUN su searxng -c "/usr/bin/python3 -m compileall -q searx" \
- && touch -c --date=@${TIMESTAMP_SETTINGS} searx/settings.yml \
- && touch -c --date=@${TIMESTAMP_UWSGI} dockerfiles/uwsgi.ini \
- && find /usr/local/searxng/searx/static -a \( -name '*.html' -o -name '*.css' -o -name '*.js' \
-    -o -name '*.svg' -o -name '*.ttf' -o -name '*.eot' \) \
-    -type f -exec gzip -9 -k {} \+ -exec brotli --best {} \+
-
-# Keep these arguments at the end to prevent redundant layer rebuilds
-ARG LABEL_DATE=
-ARG GIT_URL=unknown
-ARG SEARXNG_GIT_VERSION=unknown
-ARG SEARXNG_DOCKER_TAG=unknown
-ARG LABEL_VCS_REF=
-ARG LABEL_VCS_URL=
-LABEL maintainer="searxng <${GIT_URL}>" \
-      description="A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine." \
-      version="${SEARXNG_GIT_VERSION}" \
-      org.label-schema.schema-version="1.0" \
-      org.label-schema.name="searxng" \
-      org.label-schema.version="${SEARXNG_GIT_VERSION}" \
-      org.label-schema.url="${LABEL_VCS_URL}" \
-      org.label-schema.vcs-ref=${LABEL_VCS_REF} \
-      org.label-schema.vcs-url=${LABEL_VCS_URL} \
-      org.label-schema.build-date="${LABEL_DATE}" \
-      org.label-schema.usage="https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.title="searxng" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.version="${SEARXNG_DOCKER_TAG}" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.url="${LABEL_VCS_URL}" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.revision=${LABEL_VCS_REF} \
-      org.opencontainers.image.source=${LABEL_VCS_URL} \
-      org.opencontainers.image.created="${LABEL_DATE}" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.documentation="https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker"
+# Start the application
+CMD ["sh", "-c", "source /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/activate && python searx/webapp.py"]
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diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index a6bd4cb1c..7062a88e2 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - ./settings.yml:/etc/searxng/settings.yml
       - ./requirements.txt:/app/requirements.txt
-    command: ["sh", "-c", "source /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/activate && python searx/webapp.py"]
+    command: ["sh", "-c", "source /usr/local/searxng/searx-pyenv/bin/activate && python searx/webapp.py"]
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