I want to use mediawiki behind a Tor hidden service and obviously not leak my real ip. Are there any things I should keep in mind or are there instructions how to do it safely? -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different...
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:06 AM, <anotst01 <at> fastmail.fm> wrote: > I want to use mediawiki behind a Tor hidden service and obviously not > leak my real ip. > > Are there any things I should keep in mind or are there instructions how > to do it safely? > Assuming you mean accessing a public MediaWiki instance with your web browser protected by Tor, you shouldn't need to do anything special -- only the outermost IP address in the onion stack will be exposed to MediaWiki; the tor system is designed to make it hard to figure out your originating IP. Note that some installations may have filters enabled to block use of known Tor outgoing nodes (such as Wikimedia sites) due to issues with abuse and vandalism. -- brion
Sorry for being unclear. I want to be the server who hosts the mediawiki behind the Tor hidden service. Not the client/browser. -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service
On 25/07/12 22:43, anotst01 <at> fastmail.fm wrote: > Sorry for being unclear. I want to be the server who hosts the mediawiki > behind the Tor hidden service. Not the client/browser. It should work like setting up any other tor hidden service. You probably want to make the web server listen on localhost. That way (a) it can't be discovered by connecting to the wiki through the real ip and (b) MediaWiki can't disclose it by showing cached pages created with the public ip which happen to have it embedded (unlikely, but possible).
On 25/07/12 18:06, anotst01 <at> fastmail.fm wrote: > I want to use mediawiki behind a Tor hidden service and obviously not > leak my real ip. > > Are there any things I should keep in mind or are there instructions how > to do it safely? > One thing that comes to mind is that you'll want to check some variables to make sure they are using your Onion URL instead of the real IP: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Krenair
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