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Tor - The Onion Router
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As someone who just stumbled on here from ALL, I'm vaguely familiar with Onion sites and TOR more generally, but what resources would you recommend to learn more about setting one up for myself to play around with?
It's easy. Just edit your Tor configuration file (torrc) to enable an onion service. This one forwards from the onion service on port 80 (so users don't have to specify a port number in the URL) to a local HTTP server running on your machine on port 8000:
Change the directory path based on your operating system. Specify a directory that doesn't exist yet so Tor can set the correct permissions on it. Next, start or restart Tor. Then just read the onion service's hostname in the
hostnamefile created in that hidden services directory.You can then run any HTTP server on localhost:8000 and anyone connecting to your onion service can access it. In Python this might be as simple as
python3 -m http.server --bind localhost 8000 --directory .to share the files current directory (but be aware that there are some security considerations, like symbolic links, to be aware of. Just use this for testing.) For production servers you will want a "real" http server.