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Docker container for TOR with Privoxy

Arulraj V

Arulraj V

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I released a docker container for TOR with Privoxy bundled together. Earlier I wrote a script (Tor Installer) to setup the TOR and Privoxy environment in a linux system. But docker is the correct tool to setup these kind of environment.

Hope you know what is TOR and Privoxy.

Github Repo https://github.com/arulrajnet/torprivoxy

Docker Repo https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/arulrajnet/torprivoxy

How to Use

You have to install docker first. To install in linux follow this

docker run -d \
-p 8118:8118 -p 9050:9050 -p 9051:9051 \
--name tor -i arulrajnet/torprivoxy:latest

Binding port 9050 and 9051 are optional. 9051 is the controlport of TOR Network. Using that you can forcefully regenerate the TOR ip. Read more about tor_ip_renew.py

Docker Tags

There are two flavor of container

Tag Base Image Size

latest debian:wheezy 180 MB

wheezy debian:wheezy 180 MB

jessie debian:jessie 228.1 MB

This is the very lean image for TOR with Privoxy currently available in docker hub.

Verify

How to cross check are you getting ip from Tor or not.

Check your IP without TOR

curl http://curlmyip.com

Check with TOR

curl -v --socks5-hostname localhost:9050 http://curlmyip.com

Check with privoxy

export http_proxy=http://localhost:8118/
curl http://curlmyip.com
unset http_proxy

or

curl -x http://localhost:8118 -L http://curlmyip.com

Debug

If the above step is not success you have to verify the log files.

docker exec -it tor /bin/bash

All the log files in the /tmp folder of container.

To restart TOR and Provoxy

supervisionctl
supervisor> status
supervisor> restart tor
supervisor> restart privoxy

Global Proxy

You can set privoxy as a global proxy so that all your traffic goes via TOR

In Ubuntu

Open /etc/environment

http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
https_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
ftp_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
HTTP_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
HTTPS_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
FTP_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=localhost -Dhttp.proxyPort=8118"

Add this at the EOF.

Then source /etc/environment

In CentOS

Create file /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh Then put the below content and save.

http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
https_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
ftp_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
HTTP_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
HTTPS_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
FTP_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:8118"
_JAVA_OPTIONS=$_JAVA_OPTIONS" -Dhttp.proxyHost=localhost -Dhttp.proxyPort=8118"

export http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy HTTP_PROXY HTTPS_PROXY FTP_PROXY _JAVA_OPTIONS

Then source /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh OR you can set the same in .bashrc or .bash_profile

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