[tor-talk] New Document: Building a "Proof of Concept" Onion Site

Flipchan flipchan at riseup.net
Sun Sep 18 16:09:29 UTC 2016


I just have the hidden service listen on the same port as http/https

Alec Muffett <alec.muffett at gmail.com> skrev: (17 september 2016 22:50:17 CEST)
>One of the questions I get asked lots is "How [do I] set up a Onion
>site to
>be an Onion equivalent to my [normal WWW website]?"
>
>Some people call these "onion mirrors" or "onion copies" of [a website]
>-
>but I feel that those are narrow, perjorative and incorrect
>descriptions.
>
>Some websites you access over HTTP, some over HTTPS, and nowadays some
>of
>them you will access over Onions.
>
>So, for me these are "Websites accessed over Onions" - or simply "Onion
>Sites" because I am old enough to remember "$PROTOCOL sites" for values
>of
>$PROTOCOL including: https, http, gopher, ftp...
>
>But how do you set them up?  It's pretty simple and I am documenting
>and
>testing a process.
>
>The first of (probably several) documents has been posted at:
>
>
>https://github.com/alecmuffett/the-onion-diaries/blob/master/building-proof-of-concept.md
>
>...and has been written for people who are comfy setting up a simple
>Ubuntu
>Server instance in a virtualised environment or on (say) AWS.
>
>The goal of the document is to build an educational,
>non-production-quality
>"playpen" onion site which uses "man in the middle"
>request-and-response
>rewriting to make a normal website available as an onion site; this is
>not
>a technique that I would typically recommend for production use* - but
>it's
>great for messing around, learning, and starting to see how Onions are
>set
>up.
>
>If you like the document and would like to see some prior discussion
>and
>diagrams, read also:
>
>    https://storify.com/AlecMuffett/tor-tips
>
>My next document will probably drill into the matter of how subdomains
>work
>with onion sites, and how to modify the process from the first document
>to
>experiment with supporting multiple subdomains.
>
>    - alec
>
>
>* although last time I checked I think, Ubuntu and perhaps ProPublica
>were
>doing this, but rather more professionally than I describe here.
>
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