[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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