docker-tor-hiddenservice-nginx: Easily setup a hidden service inside the Tor network

by do son · October 14, 2017

Easily create and run hidden services

Easily run a hidden service inside the Tor network with this container

Generate the skeleton configuration for you hidden service, replace for your hidden service pattern name. Example, if you want to your hidden service contain the word ‘boss’, just use this word as an argument. You can use regular expressions like ^boss, will generate an address which will start with ‘boss’. Be aware that bigger the pattern, more time it will take to generate it.

docker run -it –rm -v $(pwd)/web:/web \
strm/tor-hiddenservice-nginx generate <pattern>

Create a container named ‘hiddensite’ to serve your generated hidden service

docker run -d –restart=always –name hiddensite -v $(pwd)/web:/web \
strm/tor-hiddenservice-nginx

Example

Let’s create a hidden service with the name beginning with strm.

docker pull strm/tor-hiddenservice-nginx

Wait for the container image be downloaded. And then we can generate our site skeleton:

$docker run -it –rm -v $(pwd)/web:/web strm/tor-hiddenservice-nginx generate ^strm
[+] Generating the address with mask: ^strm
[+] Found matching domain after 137072 tries: strmfyygjp5st54g.onion
[+] Generating nginx configuration for site strmfyygjp5st54g.onion
[+] Creating www folder
[+] Generating index.html template

Now we have our skeleton generated, we can run the container with:

docker run -d –restart=always –name hiddensite \
-v $(pwd)/web:/web strm/tor-hiddenservice-nginx

And you have the service running! 🙂

Troubleshoot

403 error on nginx, check your directory permissions and folder permissions. Nginx run as “hidden” user, his UID is 666, just check if you give this user access to the /web/www folder (in the case the folder mapped to it).