Script Tor Web Server in 18 seconds

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To get a Tor Web Server up and running in around 18 second, do the following.

This has been tested on Ubuntu / Debian systems only.

nano tor_server.sh

Copy and paste the following script.

# update apt
sudo apt-get update -y

# install nginx and tor
sudo apt-get install tor nginx -y

# enable tor server
sed -i 's/#HiddenServiceDir/HiddenServiceDir/' /etc/tor/torrc
sed -i 's/#HiddenServicePort/HiddenServicePort/' /etc/tor/torrc

# restart tor service
sudo systemctl restart tor.service

# make a default index.html file
echo 'Welcome to our Tor website' > /var/www/html/index.html

# get the tor website address
TORADDRESS="$(cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname)";

# get ipv4 address
IPADDRESS="$(ip addr | grep 'state UP' -A2 | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1  -d'/')";

# clear the screen
clear

# echo some results
echo "HTML Root: /var/www/html";
echo "IPv4 / Insecure URL: http://$IPADDRESS";
echo "Tor / Secure URL http://$TORADDRESS";
echo " ";

Save and exit, then run the file

sudo sh tor_server.sh


This will install the needed software and present you with your new Tor webserver address and the default HTML folder you can upload your website content to.