All in One Container for Hidden Services

TORNet is all in one system to work as hidden-service. TORNet has all necessary applications such as NGINX, PHP-FPM, MariaDB to host your hidden service. And also to secure and optimize Tor connection, latest version of Vanguards is also installed along side with Tor monitoring software NYX. Also dnsmasq is handling all DNS queries over Tor connection. You may get the images from Docker Hub or GitHub / GitHub Packages.

Notes

• It's wise to use separate Docker Network for TORNet.

  • docker network create PrivateNet

• To avoid permission issues pass your UID and GID as ENV variable. Please run following commands at your terminal to get your UID and GID, if you don't know them already.

  • UID: id -u
  • GID: id -g

• It's better not to pass your Timezone to Container, default is UTC.

• You will get your random MariaDB/MySQL password at /root folder.

• Please delete/rename the phpinfo.php file at public_html after checking everything is working fine.

• It's better to use Nyx as user tor to avoid warnings about being root and to use proper configuration file.

  • From the container;
    • As user tor, run nyx
  • From the host system;
    • docker exec -u tor -it TORNet nyx

Deploy

docker network create PrivateNet

docker run -d \
  --name TORNet \
  -e UID=$(id -u) \
  -e GID=$(id -g) \
  -v ~/docker/TORNet:/home/tor \
  --hostname TORNet \
  --network PrivateNet \
  --restart unless-stopped \  
  yanik39/tornet:latest

Supervisor

• Supervisor is controlling all services.
• You may control Supervisor with SupervisorCTL

  • Usage is possible only with root user.

  • From the container;

    • supervisorctl status
    • supervisorctl reload
    • supervisorctl help
    • supervisorctl restart TOR ..etc

  • From the host system

    • docker exec -it TORNet supervisorctl status
    • docker exec -it TORNet supervisorctl reload
    • docker exec -it TORNet supervisorctl restart TOR ..etc

Logging

• Logging is disabled by default except Tor itself while Tor and Vanguards already hides/scrambles sensitive data from Tor logs. So its safe to remain on. If you may want also turn it off, edit torrc config file at the Tor home folder.

• There is a useful script to manage logging for all managed services (nginx, php-fpm, mysql/mariadb etc.).

  • Usage is possible only with root user.

  • From the container;

    • torlog status
    • torlog disable
    • torlog enable

  • From the host system;

    • docker exec -it TORNet torlog status
    • docker exec -it TORNet torlog enable
    • docker exec -it TORNet torlog disable

• System starts with NoLog policy, if you like to debug the system just enable logging by running one of the following commands;

  • torlog enable
  • docker exec -it TORNet torlog enable

Bash Terminal Aliases

• hs to get domain names hosted at your TORNet.
• ns to see listening sockets and ports.
• hc to manually trigger HealthCheck.

HealthCheck

• System runs three checks to decide being healthy.
  • Checks Tor Projects, Tor Check page (Which says 'Congratulations' if the connection is over Tor)
  • Checks Debian Onion V3 adress 5ekxbftvqg26oir5wle3p27ax3wksbxcecnm6oemju7bjra2pn26s3qd.onion
  • Also checks systems own hidden service address.
• If there is many(8) consequent error occurs, Tor is going to be restarted by the HealthCheck script.

DNS

• dnsmasq handles all DNS requests and send them over Tor connection.

Some Features

• tor <-> nginx connection is established with socket. Nginx is not listening any IP or port.
• nginx <-> php8.1-fpm connection is established with socket.
• nginx is hardened, so exposing nothing.
• php is hardened by disabling any settings exposes any info.
• php-fpm clears all ENV variables.
• supervisor <-> supervisorctl connection is secured with auto generated random password.
• MariaDB/MySQL mysql_secure_install is done after first install. Any you get the auto generated random password at /root folder.
• If you messed with configurations/files/folders etc. just delete file/folder to get default ones after restart of the container.
• Vanguards is hardening tor connections. I suggest also checking related Tor Blog post.
• 5-Eye countries are blocked as any kind of nodes (exit or middle). There is some warnings about this at tor logs, but safe to ignore.
• Nyx is ready to run to check tor connection with nice GUI. With proper settings at tor home folder.