#How to Set Up a Hidden (Onion|Tor) Service.html

                >insanely easy, especially compared to conventional web hosting
                1. Have a service running
                    >this can be any service
                    >write down what port its running on, this address will be referenced BELOW as 
                    >for testing purposes lets use netcat
                    {
                        $ nc -l 1234
                    }
                2. Configure Tor
                    {
                        HiddenServiceDir 
                        HiddenServicePort  127.0.0.1:
                    }
                    >open the torrc your daemon is using ("/etc/tor/torrc" by default)
                    >tor will need to know where to store relevant information about the site
                      and which port it must mirror/proxy to the tor network
                    >you will also have to specify the dir for Tor to create(!) and store stuff at {"mynetcat"}
                    >if you're planning on hosting multiple hidden services its a good idea
                      to create a designated parent directory for all {"/var/lib/tor/hidden_service/"};
                      NOTE: double check permissions and owner (have it '7xx tor')
                    > is the outbound port through which one must connect to the service to access it
                    >NOTE: while  in our case will be the same as ,
                      this would not apply, if we had, lets say,
                      a gitea running on port 3000;
                      there,  we would set it to 80 (or 443),
                      because we would want to to behave normally from a browser
                    { // configuration template populated with our example case
                        HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/mynetcat
                        HiddenServicePort 1234 127.0.0.1:1234
                    }
                    >NOTE: for debugging, "tor --runasdaemon 0 --verify-config" could be useful
                3. Restart tor
                    {
                        $ sudo systemctl restart tor # or with whatever init system you have, obviously
                    }
                4. Get the address
                    {
                        $ cat /hostname
                    }
                    >an onion address is automatically created for your hidden service
                    { // address location in our example
                        $ cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/mynetcat/hostname
                    }
                5. Verify
                    >it should be online now, allowing us to connect
                    >test it
                    {
                        $ torify nc jsBsjBsn2j59poqndnajk45ndtjsbA6bsjubyeqzfqhxcgujsadnmi5d.onion 1234
                    }