Set up your darknet site

CONFIGURE THE SERVER FOLDER

Follow ‘Setting Up TAILS’ to boot from a USB stick and set up persistence. Open Applications > Terminal, run sudo mkdir / var/www , then sudo mkdir /live/persistence/ TailsData_ unlocked/www . Edit the persistence config file with sudo nano /live/persistence/TailsData_ unlocked/persistence.conf/ and add the line /var/www source=www at the end. Press ‘Ctrl-X’, then ‘Y’, then Enter to save and exit. Reboot TAILS, open Terminal and run sudo apt-get update , then sudo aptget install nginx-light . Run sudo nano /etc/ nginx/sites-available/default , paste the text in Step 2 at the end, save and exit.

SET UP A WEB SERVER

server { listen 127.0.0.1:8080 default_ server; server_ name localhost; server_tokens off; root /var/www; index index.html index.htm; location / { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; } }

SET UP STEALTH SERVICES

Run sudo nano /etc/tor/torrc . Scroll down to ‘this section is just for location-hidden services’. This is where you’ll set up a hidden service for each user. Modify the names in the last line before pasting: HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_ service/ Hidden Service Port 80127.0.0.1:8080 Hidden Service Authorize Client stealth tom,dick,harry Save and exit.

CREATE AN INDEX PAGE WITH PERMISSIONS

Create a simple landing page for your website with sudo nano /var/www/index.htm . Type in some text such as ‘This is your secret page running from TAILS,’ then save and exit. Give the www user ownership of the /var/www folder with sudo chown -Rv www-data:www-data

/var/www . Restart Tor and Nginx with: sudo service tor restart sudo service nginx restart

SET UP CLIENT ACCESS (TOR BROWSER)

Run sudo cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_

service/hostname to list access tokens for all users. Ask your user to open their Tor Browser Bundle folder and use a text editor to open the file ‘torrc’. This is found in ‘~/[path_to_tor_ browser]/Browser/ TorBrowser/Data/ Tor/torrc’ on Linux. Type the word HidServAuth , then paste the line for their Hidden Service Authentication address and cookie at the end.

SET UP CLIENT ACCESS (ORBOT)

If your contacts prefer to use a mobile, ask them to install the apps Orbot and Orweb on their Android device. Next, start Orbot and go to Menu > Settings > Torrc Custom Config. Type the word

HidServAuth , then leave a space and paste in their entry from ‘hostname’. They can now access your hidden service using the Orfox browser