Mirror your site over tor

Now that you have a website, why not offer it on a private alternative such as the onion network?

Setting up Tor

Firstly we need to add the tor repo's to have the latest up to date version or tor.

apt install apt-transport-https

echo "deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org buster main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor

echo "deb-src https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org buster main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor

Then we need to add the gpg keys to our keyring

curl https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg --import
	gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | apt-key add -
	    
	Now update and install tor
	
	apt update
	apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

        Then edit the file /etc/tor/torrc, uncommenting the following lines:
                HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
        HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80
        
            Optional: Running multiple onion services
            If you want to forward multiple virtual ports for a single onion
            service, just add more HiddenServicePort lines (replace the 80 with any unoccupied port).
            
            If you want to run multiple onion services from the same Tor client, just add another
            HiddenServiceDir line.
        

        Now start and enable tor at boot
         systemctl enable --now tor 

        If the next command outputs active in green you're golden!
         systemctl status tor

        Now you're server is on the dark web. The following command will give you your onion address:
         cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname

        Adding the Nginx Config
        
        From here, the steps are almost identical to setting up a normal website configuration file.
        Follow the steps as if you were making a new website on the webserver
        tutorial up until the server block of code. Instead, paste this:
        

                server {
            listen 127.0.0.1:80 ;
            root /var/www/landchad ;
            index index.html ;
            server_name your-onion-address.onion ;
        }

        
            Clarification
            Nginx will listen on port 80 for your server's localhost.
            The root line is the path to whichever website of yours you'd like to mirror.
        
        
        From here we are almost done, all we have to do is enable the site and reload nginx which is also covered in the webserver tutorial.
        
	 Also make sure to update tor on a regular basis by running
        apt update
	apt install tor
	 
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