Part 8 - Installing Tor

Archive note: This page documents the January 2016 Raspbian Jessie setup. Read the compatibility and security warning in Part 1 before using any of these commands on a current system.

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 apache2 stop

The Tor configuration developed in the following parts belongs to the version 2 onion-service era. Current Tor still uses the general HiddenServiceDir and HiddenServicePort concept, but it creates v3 services and uses a different key format. See Part 1 for the archive warning.

We need to tell Apache to listen for Tor traffic:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

Add the following. If you only want onion websites, comment out Listen 80 by adding # at the front, or remove it. For one onion site, keep Listen 127.0.0.1:9070 and comment out Listen 127.0.0.1:9071. For additional sites, add more loopback listeners and use the same port numbers in the later Tor mappings.

# Listen for clearnet and onion websites
Listen 80
Listen 127.0.0.1:9070
Listen 127.0.0.1:9071

Save and exit, Ctrl-O (Writeout) and Ctrl-X (Exit).

Sources

• Apache HTTP Server 2.4 - Binding to Addresses and Ports
• Tor Project - Set up Your Onion Service

Up next we configure Apache even more! Advance onward to part 9 or head back to the table of contents on page 1.