Librey/docs/system-tor-proxy.md

Important

Please note that this heavily relies on @codedipper's work and is basically a copy of his wiki.

0. This was tested on an Arch Linux setup, packages base and tor must be installed to get the proxy working.
   LibreY has other requirements as well.
   Slight differences in Tor configurations may be needed across different systems.

1. Create /etc/tor/torrc and edit it to your liking

SOCKSPort 127.0.0.1:9050
SOCKSPolicy accept 127.0.0.1/32
SOCKSPolicy reject *

DataDirectory /var/lib/tor
User tor

Log notice stdout
RunAsDaemon 0

# UseBridges 1
# Bridge xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xx

2. Secure directory permissions

chown -R tor: /usr/share/tor
chown -R tor: /var/lib/tor
chown -R tor: /etc/tor
chmod -R 0700 /usr/share/tor
chmod -R 0700 /var/lib/tor
chmod -R 0700 /etc/tor

3. Start Tor and enable it on boot

systemctl enable --now tor.service

4. Install LibreY https://github.com/Ahwxorg/LibreY/tree/main/docs#readme

5. Edit configuration files In your config.php, uncomment and change the following options to match the port you're running Tor on.

            // CURLOPT_PROXY => "ip:port",
            // CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE => CURLPROXY_HTTP,

For our configuration, they would be changed to:

            CURLOPT_PROXY => "127.0.0.1",
            CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE => CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME,

6. Start LibreY! You can use a tool like iftop to make sure your LibreY instance is connecting to guard nodes or a bridge instead of Google servers.

To update Tor and LibreY:

pacman -Syu
git pull