How to host your website on the TOR network

Hosting a website on the TOR network is shockingly easy, and doesn’t even require port forwarding.

First you want to have your server (E.g. Apache or Nginx) running and pointing at http://localhost:8080

If you don’t have one you can test with a simple python one:

python -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1 8080

Then install the TOR client if you don’t already have it:

sudo dnf install tor

Now edit /etc/tor/torrc and uncomment these lines:

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

Now just start the TOR client and you are done!

sudo systemctl enable tor
sudo systemctl start tor

View the .onion address with:

sudo cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname

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