As you can see above, I have created my web site in the Tor net, and I ‘ve accessed it using the Tor Browser .
This tutorial consists of three steps
- Preparing your computer (Not a real step)
- Installing & Configuring nginx
- Installing Tor
- Configuring the Tor server
Ingredients
- An old computer (You can try on AWS EC2, but I’ve not tried it there) 💻
- A stable internet connection 🌐
- 2 hours ⌚
- Comfort using terminal ⌨
Instructions
To begin with, find a spare calculator that can be used as a server ( If you do n’t have one, you can try following the tutorial on an AWS EC2 or similar service ). besides, you do not need a static IP for your darkness web web site .
To follow the tutorial, You will need to install a Linux based OS on the waiter ( we will refer your fifth wheel computer/cloud calculator as a waiter from now ), I have tested the downstairs steps on Ubuntu 18.04 Server LTS and I recommend that you besides use the like. Ubuntu 20.04 does n’t seem to work well with Tor .
It is besides recommended to use SSH to connect to your server since there will be no GUI, you will not be able to open this article on the server and copy-paste the commands. Typing the commands out will be time taking & besides identical erring .
In this article, I will not explain how to use & configure SSH but you can refer the under connect to understand & use SSH .
How To Use SSH To Connect To A Remote Server In Linux Or Windows
Important : Make indisputable you are running as root throughout the tutorial.
sudo su
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Let ‘s get our hands dark 😎
Installing & Configuring nginx
The role of nginx is to serve the HTML files and assets ( dissemble as a network server ).
apt update
apt install nginx
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The above commands will update the waiter & install nginx. To start the nginx server
service nginx start
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To check the status of the nginx server
service nginx status
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To confirm if the nginx server is working. We will make a GET request to the server using curl. Before that, you ‘ll need to know what is your IP address.
ifconfig
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The output will be alike to this
lo: flags=73 mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 134 bytes 21230 (21.2 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 134 bytes 21230 (21.2 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp9s0: flags=4163 mtu 1500
inet your-ip-address netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast ###.###.#.###
inet6 ####::####:####:####:#### prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
ether ##:##:##:##:##:## txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 6379 bytes 8574482 (8.5 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 3518 bytes 506008 (506.0 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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Find your IP address in inet your-IP-address. Note it down, using that immediately make a curl request.
curl your-IP-address:80
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The cabinet should print out the HTML code of the default nginx page. You can besides check if nginx is working by typing the IP address of the server in your browser .
To add your custom page, follow the steps from their official software documentation. Beginner ‘s lead – nginx
Installing Tor
Installing Tor ( not just the browser ) allows your calculator to communicate with the Tor network. Before installing Tor, we will have to install apt-transport-https, so that we can use informant lines with https://
apt install apt-transport-https
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Important : The below commands are for Ubuntu 18.04 lone
If you are running early OS, please find the commands here, from Tor ‘s official, site. We will now open the sources file to add the Tor sources.
touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
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once the editor program is open, add the following sources to the file
deb https://themedipia.comrproject.org/torproject.org bionic main
deb-src https://themedipia.comrproject.org/torproject.org bionic main
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After exit & save, type the following in the terminal. This is to add the gpg key used to sign the Tor packages.
curl https://themedipia.comrproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg --import
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | apt-key add -
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last, now we install Tor and besides a package which will help to keep the sign key current.
apt update
apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring
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exchangeable to nginx, Tor can be started & checked by the adopt commands
service nginx start
service nginx status
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Setting up the tor server
immediately that we have nginx & Tor up and running, we will have to configure Tor so that our server acts as a Tor server (Your server will not be used as a relay node)
For this, we will have to edit the torrc file. The torrc is the shape file for your Tor, the office of the file is such that, you can alter Tor to act as a proxy server & put up to the Tor net ( not in this tutorial ). In this tutorial, the torrc will be configured to act as a tor webserver ( onion service ).
nano /etc/tor/torrc
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In the torrc charge, Go to the middle incision and look for the line
############### This section is just for location-hidden services ###
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And uncomment the postdate lines.
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80
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In these lines ,
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HiddenServiceDirwill tell Tor where to save the private_key & hostname of your Tor web site ( They are information about your dark web site ). The private key stored is very important & could be used to impersonate you. In lawsuit you change your server, you precisely need to copy-paste your private key into the new server . -
HiddenServicePortlets you specify a virtual port ( that is, what interface people accessing the web site will think they ‘re using ) and an IP address and larboard for redirecting connections to this virtual port .
To apply this fresh shape, Stop the Tor service and start it again by typing the follow commands.
service tor stop
service tor start
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now check the status of the tor serve to see if the changes are working & valid.
service tor status
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If things are looking good, proceed to the following step, otherwise, you might have made a error in editing the .torrc file .
At this point, your dark web site must be running. But we do n’t know what is the URL, to get it, run the pursuit command
cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname
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The URL to your all-new blue web site will be printed in the console table. To test if it ‘s working
curl -v --socks5-hostname localhost:9050 http://your-onion-domain.onion
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The URL is actually your-public-RSA-key.onion. Tor has a different way of identifying websites, i.e. via their public RSA key.
Read more: How to Make Your Own Website Without a Host
You might notice that the URL generated, is very long and you might be wondering how to create customs hostname ( i.e. Custom RSA public key ). I will be creating an article on this topic very soon .
now let ‘s celebrate on your inaugural dark web site 🎉. besides please share your thoughts in the comments 😁 ( For example, you can ask me to add instructions on “ how to add your custom page in nginx “ )
