hosting

This is a setup for a TOR based shared hosting server. It is provided as is and before putting it into production you should make changes according to your needs

Installation Instructions:

The configuration was designed for a standard Debian unstable installation. It's recommended you install Debian unstable on your sever, but with a little tweaking you may also get this working on other distributions and/or versions. Software you will need to install and configure by copying (and editing according to your needs) the configuration files supplied: nginx, php7.0, php7.1, all php modules you want to support, sshd, vsftpd, phpmyadmin, adminer, mysql or mariadb, logrotate, tor, postfix, dovecot

This setup has two postfix instances, one for receiving and sending mail to other .onion services and one for rewriting addresses to pass them on to a clearnet facing mail relay. You may or may not want to create the second instance by running

postmulti -e init
postmulti -I clearnet -e create
postmulti -e enable
postmulti -i clearnet -p start

To save temporary files in memory, add the following to /etc/fstab

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /var/log/nginx tmpfs rw,user 0 0

If you expect a large number of registrations (10.000 or more), you should make sure your system has enough UIDs to assign. The easiest way to do so is by limiting newusers to one ID per user by adding the following to /etc/login.defs

SUB_GID_COUNT 1
SUB_UID_COUNT 1

As time syncronisation is important, you should configure ntp servers in /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf and make them match with the entries in /etc/rc.local iptables configuration

To create all required tor and php instances run the following command:

for instance in 2 3 4 5 6 7 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do(tor-instance-create $instance; ln -s /etc/systemd/system/php7.0-fpm@.service "/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/php7.0-fpm@$instance.service"; ln -s /etc/systemd/system/php7.1-fpm@.service "/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/php7.1-fpm@$instance.service";) done

And to get a list of all tor user ids to add in /etc/rc.local run the following:

for instance in 2 3 4 5 6 7 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do(id "_tor-$instance") done && id debian-tor

For web based mail management grab the latest squirrelmail and install it in /var/www/html/squirrelmail:

cd /var/www/html/ && svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrelmail/code/trunk/squirrelmail && cd squirrelmail && ./configure

Add a user to the SQL database for managing hosted sites and grant all privileges to it. Then edit the database configuration in /var/www/common.php and last but not least setup the database by running

php /var/www/setup.php

Live demo:

If you want to see the setup in action or create your own site on my server, you can visit my TOR hidden service or via a tor2web proxy like this one if you don't have TOR installed.