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[George Kadianakis]

Andri Effendi <fusionman133 at gmx.de> writes:

> Hi TOR Onions,
>  
> Has anyone written a quick and easy handbook/guide for setting up an
> .onion site for beginners?
> I mean REAL beginners. People who haven't even setup an
> ordinary webserver before.
>  

Hey Andri,

unfortunately, there is no perfect guide for what you are asking :(

It's sad but the hidden services community is suffering from usability
issues, and setting up hidden services is also part of the struggle.

Our "official instructions" assume that you know how to setup an
ordinary webserver, so they are not very helpful to you:
         https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

Now, if you google for "how to setup hidden service" you can find
multiple guides around the net. For example here is one:
         https://www.thecthulhu.com/setting-up-a-hidden-service-with-nginx/

Unfortunately all those resources are unofficial so I can't vouch for
their correctness. Feel free to join our #tor IRC channel (at OFTC
network) in case you have any questions while setting up the hidden
service.

In the future, we hope to provide packages that setup various types of
hidden services automagically for you, but we are still not there yet.

Enjoy the adventure!