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Sarvesh Huddedar
Sarvesh Huddedar

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Host your own Dark Site

First you need to install TOR on your device

apt install tor
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Once Done, Install Web-server on your host

$ sudo apt install nginx
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Update TOR Configuration(torrc) file as below

 HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/my_website/
 HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80
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/var/lib/tor/my_website/ - this folder should contain your website contents along with TOR keys

Save and restart tor service

sudo systemctl restart tor
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Once done, check your HiddenServiceDir for filename as hostname
this file will contain public .onion URL which you will be able access using TOR network.

Friendly advise: Keep keys private else this address can be utilized by others if keys are not private.

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Dipankar Shaw • • Edited

you don't need nginx. I even hosted an astro website in tor. just change HiddenServicePort to what ever port you want. In my case I have done

npm run dev
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I have runned astro in development mode just for testing

HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:4321
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