• Manual installation - Apache Server
  • Install prerequisites
  • Steps
  • As a Tor hidden service
• Docker
• Android Termux deployment (and Termux docker)
• Tor Setup

#Manual installation - Apache Server

Newer Ubuntu, Debian, Raspbian

Requires php >= 8.2

Deploying as http://localhost/ in /var/www/serveronet directory

#Install prerequisites

sudo apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php php-sqlite3 php-gmp php-curl php-xml php-zip php-mbstring curl 

#Steps

• Activate rewrite mod. Important! for security

  sudo a2enmod rewrite

• Download and unzip bundle into proper location. In this example /var/www/serveronet will be used.

  curl -L https://sncentral.localhost/serveronet_server_bundle.zip -o serveronet_server_bundle.zip

  sudo unzip serveronet_server_bundle.zip -d /var/www/serveronet

• Correct permissions

  cd /var/www/serveronet

  sudo chown -R www-data:www-data ./

  sudo chmod 755 -R ./

• Edit configuration file /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

  sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

  • Replace line with DocumentRoot with

    DocumentRoot /var/www/serveronet/public
    <Directory /var/www/serveronet/public>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    

• Deploy relavant configuration for the HTTPS version - not covered by this documentation.

• Reload web server configuration

  sudo systemctl restart apache2

• Navigate to http://localhost/ (or proper host) to complete the First Run

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#As a Tor hidden service

Follow manual instalation steps and apply these adjustments

• Get onion address from ...

• In /etc/tor/torrc adjust to additional ports HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80

• Add VirtualHost to enabled site

    DocumentRoot /var/www/torwww/public
    <Directory /var/www/torwww/public>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>

• Restart Tor and Apache

sudo systemctl restart apache2

sudo systemctl restart tor

References:

https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/setup/

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#Docker

• Create Empty volume

• Download and unzip server bundle into the volume

• Run the container

• Connect to the Container and install missing php-zip extension

• Restart after the installation

  docker volume create serveronet_volume
  

  docker run --rm \
    -v serveronet_volume:/app \
    alpine sh -c "
      apk add --no-cache curl unzip &&
      curl -L https://sncentral.localhost/serveronet_server_bundle.zip -o /tmp/site.zip &&
      unzip /tmp/site.zip -d /app
    "
  

  docker run -d \
    --name serveronet_frankenphp \
    -v serveronet_volume:/app \
    -p 14080:80 -p 14443:443 \
    dunglas/frankenphp
  

  docker exec -it serveronet_frankenphp sh -c "install-php-extensions zip"
  

  docker restart serveronet_frankenphp
  

• Browse to https://localhost:14443 to complete the First Run

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#Android Termux deployment (and Termux docker)

• Deploy image - docker only

  docker run -p 16080:15080 -p 16443:15443 -it termux/termux-docker:latest

• Enable root shell - docker only 🔗termux-docker

  /entrypoint.sh

• Connect to shell and execute following:

  curl -L https://sncentral.localhost/serveronet_linux_client_bundle.zip -o serveronet.zip

  unzip serveronet.zip -d serveronet

  cd serveronet && chmod +x Start_Serveronet.sh Stop_Serveronet.sh

  ./Start_Serveronet.sh

• Browse to http://localhost:16080/

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#Tor Setup

How to make client accesible on a Tor onion address

Steps:

1. Close Tor Browser or stop Tor

2. Edit torrc configuration file and add following lines

   HiddenServiceDir ../hidden_service/

   HiddenServicePort 15080 localhost:15080

   HiddenServicePort 15443 localhost:15443

3. Start Tor or Tor Browser

4. Configure Tor port accordingly in Client Settings:

   Defaults: 9050 (PC and Orbot), for Tor Browser: 9150