[tor-talk] transfer .onion addreess to another server

[Justin Aplin]

On 8/4/2012 9:49 PM, Salva . wrote:
> Hello guys, I have an .onion website, I need transfer all my website to another server and I don't wanna to lose this address.

I'm going to assume that you're migrating your entire Tor node 
(including the hidden service) to a new physical server, instead of 
trying to move the hidden service from one Tor node to another.

> How can I have the same .onion address in another server ? I mean, What should I do to transfer my website to another server keeping the same onion address?Thanks u all guys

Moving the "keys" directory (and all its contents) and the "fingerprint" 
file from the DataDirectory of your current node to the DataDirectory of 
your new node will preserve the identity of your node. Moving the 
"private_key" and "hostname" files from the HiddenServiceDirectory of 
your current node to the HiddenServiceDirectory of your new node will 
preserve the identity of your hidden service.

If you do both of these, nobody should be able to tell that anything has 
been changed. When you've made sure everything is running as expected, 
you can delete the DataDirectory and HiddenServiceDirectory on the old 
hardware to prevent duplicate server descriptors (which will result in 
odd behavior, like your hidden service only being reachable some of the 
time). If you plan to continue running a Tor node on the old hardware, a 
new set of keys and a new fingerprint will automatically be generated.

~Justin Aplin