[tor-talk] TOR problem with onion service setup

xxx torlist4 at yandex.ru
Mon May 20 05:26:26 UTC 2019


Nobody? :(

On 15-May-19 19:09, xxx wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 


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