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Take Back the Darknet (Part 9)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 9 - Configuring Apache First up, here’s a cool add-on to limit speed and amount of connections of the people visiting your website. Great if you have finite bandwidth on the upstream. Its specific settings can be found in the tim.conf config below under “IfModule mod_bw.c”. Installing this is... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 8)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 8 - Installing Tor To get Tor up and running we need to install it with the following. sudo apt-get install tor -y And just like that Tor is installed and establishing Tor circuits. sudo service tor stop Let’s stop Apache as well. sudo service apache stop We need... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 7)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 7 - Hardening Apache and Secure Shell Next up we harden Apache and OpenSSH for the glass is always half empty. Start off by editing the security configuration file for Apache2. sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf-available/security.conf Change ServerTokens OS to ServerTokens Prod and change ServerSignature On to ServerSignature Off Save and... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 6)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 6 - Installing Samba Server We need a way to gain access to the files on the Raspberry Pi so we can update your new website. Samba allows sharing across Windows, OS X and Linux. Very useful. An alternative is FTP but isn’t covered in this guide. Install Samba... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 5)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 5 - Installing Apache 2.4 HTTP Server If you are hosting a clearnet website, you will want to make sure ports 80 (http) and 443 (https) are forwarded on your router. One of the wonderful things about the darknet is that it does not require any port forwarding due... Continue reading