Clear Web, Deep Web and Dark Web
What’s the difference? Is it not legal to host a Website on the so called Dark Web? Well, no. It’s pretty easy. The Clear Web is the normal surfing you and most of the humans do on an daily basis. The Deep Web are resources that aren’t accessible to all people, like password safed sites, or Company Intern Resources. But what’s the Dark Web now? The infamous Dark Web is a more or less open Internet Resource, in which the user interacts with the so called Tor Network. Your Web traffic gets encrypted with many layers of encrypted and gets then rerouted through many network nodes, which obviously is the perfect ground for criminal activities. With it you can access the normal Clear and Deep Web, like *.com or *.io sites, but to „enter“ the Dark Web, you can search for *.onion Sites on the „Hidden Wiki“ as example.
Host your own one
This guide is for linux based machines, tested on Debian 12.
Services
sudo apt update
# Install one of the following Webservers
sudo apt install apache2
sudo apt install Nginx
# Or Python Server
sudo apt install python3
sudo python3 -m http.server <PORT NUMBER>
# Then you have to install the Tor service
sudo apt install tor
# And the Tor Browser
# Which you can Download <a href="https://www.torproject.org/de/download/">here[l.o. 24.Dec.2023]</a>
# Then start the Tor service
sudo systemctl start tor
sudo systemctl status tor # Check status
# There‘s a little more to do
sudo vim /etc/tor/torrc # or nano if vim isn‘t installed
# Two lines should be commented out, just delete the hashes before them
# (HiddenServiceDir HiddenServicePort)
# Now restart the Tor service
sudo systemctl restart tor
sudo systemctl status tor
# All the files of it are located at
sudo su
cd /var/lib/tor/hidden_service
# Here’s files like your secret key, and so on
cat hostname # Here‘s our linkStart and Change the Server
# Start your installed Webserver with
sudo systemctl start <SERVER> # Apache2 oder Nginx
sudo python3 -m http.server <PORT NUMBER> # Python
# Now our link under /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname should be accessible
# The html code for the Site can be found under
cd /var/www/html
# If you make any changes, restart your Tor service to apply the changes
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