[tor-talk] TOR problem with onion service setup

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I want to setup an onion service on a VPS. For this I installed a fresh 
Centos6 copy, replaced Apache by Nginx, got TOR from Epel repo.

As long that I simply run Tor, all is right. But when I modify the 
tor.rc to setup an onion service, problems begin.

In tor.rc I unchecked the lines

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80

Then:

# service tor restart

Checking if tor configuration is validMay 15 19:01:11.001 [notice] Tor 
0.2.9.17 (git-e057a19b74589fca) running on Linux with Libevent 
2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips and Zlib 1.2.3.

May 15 19:01:11.001 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! 
Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning

May 15 19:01:11.002 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
May 15 19:01:11.006 [warn] Couldn't find $HOME environment variable 
while expanding "~/.tor"; defaulting to "".
May 15 19:01:11.006 [warn] Default DataDirectory is "~/.tor".  This 
expands to "/.tor", which is probably not what you want.  Using 
"/var/tor" instead

May 15 19:01:11.007 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ cannot 
be read: Permission denied
May 15 19:01:11.007 [warn] Checking service directory 
/var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ failed.
May 15 19:01:11.007 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to 
configure rendezvous options. See logs for details.
May 15 19:01:11.007 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.


To solve the $HOME point I uncommented the line

#DataDirectory /var/lib/tor

But so, remains the problem of

May 15 19:01:11.007 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ cannot 
be read: Permission denied
May 15 19:01:11.007 [warn] Checking service directory 
/var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ failed.
May 15 19:01:11.007 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to 
configure rendezvous options. See logs for details.



I looked online and found a few "solutions", none of them work (changing 
ownership and permissions of the /var/lib/tor/*, setting a completely 
different directory in /var/, etc etc)

  Any help would be welcome, thank you!