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Installing thttpd and tor to create a .onion website

jun 1, 2016

whew. took a while. a lot of fussing. by i have an onion website running on my linux computer in my home.

zwdqwr2p2xwkpbyv.onion

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installing on my home linux computer.

http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd

downloaded thttpd-2.27.tar.gz

su to root

tar -zxvf thttpd-2.27.tar.gz

cd into directory

./configure

make

make install

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my files:

/usr/local/sbin/thttpd

/usr/local/www/thttpd_config

/usr/local/sbin/thttpd_wrapper

/usr/local/www/data/index.html

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https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

http://nekhbet.com/nginx_onion.shtml

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2013/10/19/how-to-safely-host-your-own-tor-hidden-service/

/home/veery/tor/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor

https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/config/torrc.sample.in

http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/6662/my-hidden-service-doesnt-load-unless-the-tor-browser-is-open-on-the-server

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13060096/why-tor-cant-access-localhost-pages

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/tor

http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/1065/what-happened-to-torrc-in-tor-browser-bundle

kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/tor/tor.pid`

/usr/sbin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc --hush

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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/10/13/thttpd.html?page=3
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux/2005-11/0109.html

http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/notes.html

https://www.pantz.org/software/thttpd/thttpdconfig.html

http://nginxlibrary.com/running-cgi-scripts-using-thttpd/

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/use-thttpd-as-your-web-server-when-apache-is-overkill/

https://calomel.org/thttpd.html

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1648470

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sudo apt-get install tor

created directory called: hidden_service
in /var/lib/tor

while in /var/lib/tor
chown -R debian-tor:debian-tor hidden_service

vim /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc

add two lines:

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:8080

tor daemon log file: /var/log/tor/log

ps aux | grep tor

start up tor if not already running:

/usr/sbin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc --hush

or restart tor daemon

kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/tor/tor.pid`

then in the hidden_service directory, two new files will be created:

private_key
hostname

the hostname file contains the .onion address that points to the website hosted by the thttpd install above.

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git clone my wren web publishing app.

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http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/21154/14May2015/Installing-nodejs-nginx-mysql-junco-and-ghost-on-Digital-Ocean-Droplet#Installing-Nginx

installed nginx
installed fastcgi

**** do this and not the first method mentioned in the above install doc:

apt-get install nginx spawn-fcgi fcgiwrap

update 20nov2013 - problems with cgi app executing another cgi app on same server. seems to be a problem with fast cgi. trying a different wrapper mentioned here: https://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/perl-fastcgi/ubuntu-12.04-precise-pangolin

the above link redirects to here:
https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/nginx/nginx-and-perlfastcgi-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin/

edit: /etc/init.d/fcgiwrap and change the following:

FCGI_CHILDREN="1" to FCGI_CHILDREN="5"

comment out: FCGI_SOCKET="/var/run/$NAME.socket"

and add:
FCGI_PORT="8999"
FCGI_ADDR="127.0.0.1"

ensure user and group match the web server daemon user and group.

service fcgiwrap restart

ps aux | grep cgi

installed wren, which meant installing perl modules

perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTML::Template'

this is a big install that takes a few minutes.
perl -MCPAN -e 'install JSON::Any'

perl -MCPAN -e 'install JSON::XS'

moron. i should have installed only JSON::PP instead of the two json modules above.

perl -MCPAN -e 'install WWW::Mailgun'

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/etc/init.d

/usr/local/etc/rc.d --- not used

Elsewhere

http://www.propub3r6espa33w.onion

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/a-more-secure-and-anonymous-propublica-using-tor-hidden-services

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/propublica-launches-the-dark-webs-first-major-news-site/

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/why-propublica-joined-the-dark-web

https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/facebook-tor-dark-site/

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-over-tor/1-million-people-use-facebook-over-tor/865624066877648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11549839

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/02/16/interview-sigaint-darknet-email-admin/

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/replies/71772

My .onion site that's running on Linux in our household. I don't always have the computer on. I need a raspberrypi for a dedicated machine.

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