Static Website as Tor Hidden Service on Raspberry Pi

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Local HTTP server

as root:

• Install nginx on the RPi

apt install nginx

• In the browser from another computer on the network, check that you the default HTML page is properly served at: http://192.168.1.XXX (you should see a small "Welcome to nginx!" text).
• create a non-default mini static website:

mkdir /var/www/partyvan
echo "OHAI" > /var/www/partyvan/index.html

• disable nginx default site

rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

• create new nginx site config /etc/nginx/sites-available/partyvan with:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    root /var/www/partyvan;
    index index.html;

    server_name partyvan;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
}

• Enable site

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/partyvan /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
service nginx reload

• In the browser from another computer on the network, check that you the default HTML page is properly served: http://192.168.1.XXX (you should see a small "OHAI" text).

Tor setup

Note: This is only valid for RPi2 and later.

• Add the Tor deb repos to /etc/apt/sources.list. At time of writing, stable Raspbian is based on Buster:

deb https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org buster main
deb-src https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org buster main

• Add the GPG keys used to sign the packages from the Tor repos:

curl https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89.asc | gpg --import
gpg --export A3C4F0F979CAA22CDBA8F512EE8CBC9E886DDD89 | apt-key add -

• Install Tor

apt install tor deb.torproject.org-keyring

• Edit /etc/tor/torrc/ and in the section about hidden services, add:

# Partyvan site
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/partyvan/
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80