rz01.org accessible via Tor

Even though it probably doesn’t interest anyone and serves no practical purpose, I’ve now also hosted rz01.org on the Tor network. The main reason for this is that I find it interesting to make a completely legitimate website like this one available on the darknet and to learn how to do it in the process.

Basically, this is surprisingly simple: You take, for example, a Linux server, install a web server and the Tor service. You then configure it so that it routes whatever the local web server serves to the Tor network. I still had a few Raspberry Pi 1 SBCs from 2011 lying around, so I installed Raspbian 32-bit on one of them and placed it in my home network’s DMZ. I followed these instructions when configuring Tor: Set up Your Onion Service

The nice thing about this is that you don’t need a TLS certificate, you don’t have to buy a domain, and you don’t have to open or forward any ports on the firewall. Since I write my website by hand in HTML and manage it in Git, I practically don’t have to worry about the Tor server at all. The website is simply updated hourly via cron using `git pull`.

This website is now accessible on the Tor network at the following address: http://rznulldgmvbx4346ximn63iz2xyqel4v63sakvhrtza6pow42p7riwid.onion