Andri Effendi fusionman133@gmx.de writes:
Hi TOR Onions,
Has anyone written a quick and easy handbook/guide for setting up an .onion site for beginners? I mean REAL beginners. People who haven't even setup an ordinary webserver before.
Hey Andri,
unfortunately, there is no perfect guide for what you are asking :(
It's sad but the hidden services community is suffering from usability issues, and setting up hidden services is also part of the struggle.
Our "official instructions" assume that you know how to setup an ordinary webserver, so they are not very helpful to you: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en
Now, if you google for "how to setup hidden service" you can find multiple guides around the net. For example here is one: https://www.thecthulhu.com/setting-up-a-hidden-service-with-nginx/
Unfortunately all those resources are unofficial so I can't vouch for their correctness. Feel free to join our #tor IRC channel (at OFTC network) in case you have any questions while setting up the hidden service.
In the future, we hope to provide packages that setup various types of hidden services automagically for you, but we are still not there yet.
Enjoy the adventure!
If you can drive a text editor, and ubuntu, you may like the following document except with one proviso:
https://github.com/alecmuffett/the-onion-diaries/blob/master/basic-productio...
...the proviso is that it does *not* take you as far as setting up a WWW server (Apache, NGINX) because people like to choose one for themselves.
But what it does give you is something that I believe is the most secure foundation upon which to install a webserver, plus also 4 pre-configured onion addresses which are nicely integrated into the Ubuntu configuration so they are easily referenceable by NGINX (etc) configurations; you can meaningfully set up "listeners" on distinct, separate, named onion addresses/interfaces, rather than on 127.0.0.1
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