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Use custom .onion address

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Changing generic onion to one generated earlier

  1. Check the current .onion generated when you first setup TOR (in case you want to use it)
    > cd /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
    > cat hostname
  2. If you wish to use a custom address, delete (or move) the old keys
    > cd /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
    > rm -rf *
  3. locate the keys to copy
    > cd /home/<your username>/Downloads/mkp224o/<key folder name>/<key folder>/
    example
    > cd /home/user/Downloads/mkp224o/websitekeys/websitehz44l75xucojrrqofi4v7rn4y75wu6ocn7zbwjazgr44prfyd.onion/
    > ls -al
  4. Copy the generated keys to the onion service location
    > sudo cp * /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
  5. change ownership of the copied keys so the service can access them
    > sudo chown debian-tor:debian-tor /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/*
  6. restart the tor service
    > sudo service tor restart