From: Roger Dingledine
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:00:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: clean up the tor-doc some
X-Git-Tag: tor-0.0.9rc1~48
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4eb15152b73b7912c53ad649a8126c5efdf119d;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git
clean up the tor-doc some
svn:r2909
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diff --git a/doc/tor-doc.html b/doc/tor-doc.html
index 25f5390c0a..fc060be05f 100644
--- a/doc/tor-doc.html
+++ b/doc/tor-doc.html
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ server below.
href="http://freehaven.net/tor/dist/">here.
If you got Tor from a tarball, unpack it: tar xzf
-tor-0.0.7.tar.gz; cd tor-0.0.7. Run ./configure, then
+tor-0.0.9.tar.gz; cd tor-0.0.9. Run ./configure, then
make, and then make install (as root if necessary). Then
you can launch tor from the command-line by running tor.
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ href="http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html">OpenSSL
libeay32.dll.) You might also want to run Tor in a dos window,
so you can see its logs, and see its error messages if it
crashes. If you don't want the default configuration, fetch the torrc, edit it,
+href="http://freehaven.net/tor/cvs/tor/src/config/torrc.sample.in">torrc, edit it,
and use tor.exe -f torrc.
Otherwise, if you got it prepackaged (e.g. in the here or here and look at the
running-routers line to see if your server is part of the network.
-You may find the initscript in contrib/tor.sh useful if you
-want to set up Tor to start at boot.
+You may find the initscripts in contrib/tor.sh or contrib/torctl
+useful if you want to set up Tor to start at boot. Let us know which
+script you found more useful.
Configuring a hidden service
@@ -283,8 +284,8 @@ you may want to set up your own separate Tor network.
To set up your own Tor network, you need to run your own directory
-servers, and you need to change the tarball so it points to your directory
-servers rather than the default ones.
+servers, and you need to configure each client and server so it knows
+about your directory servers rather than the default ones.
- 1: Grab the latest release. Use at least 0.0.9pre5.
@@ -301,14 +302,11 @@ the default place, or tor -f torrc --list-fingerprint to
specify one. This will generate your keys and output a fingerprint
line.
-3: Create the new dirservers file. You do this by concatenating the
-"router.desc" files from each dirserver's DataDirectory: cat router1.desc
-router2.desc ... > dirservers
-4a: Now you need to teach clients and servers to use the new
+3: Now you need to teach clients and servers to use the new
dirservers. For each fingerprint, add a line like
DirServer 18.244.0.114:80 719B E45D E224 B607 C537 07D0 E214 3E2D 423E 74CF
to the torrc of each client and server who will be using your network.
-5: Create a file called approved-routers in the DataDirectory
+4: Create a file called approved-routers in the DataDirectory
of each directory server. Collect the 'fingerprint' lines from
each server (including directory servers), and include them (one per
line) in each approved-routers file. You can hup the tor process for