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I'm a beginner who need a little help. I got stuck while i was trying to setup my hidden service.

I'm on a Mac (EL Capitan) running Windows 7 on Parallels Desktop virtual machine. I have my wampserver 2.5 running quite nice (honestly i have a little issue: if i place my site to the www folder it wont load for the localhost command in the browser, only when i give the exact location like localhost.index.html, i don't think its connected to my tor problem :) ) or? :)

Tor Browser run just fine, but when i add this line:

# Hidden Service
HiddenServiceDir C:\Users\UserName\tor_service
HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80

I got an error message:

Tor unexpectedly exited. This might be due to a bug in Tor itself, another program on your system, or faulty hardware. Until you restart Tor, the Tor Browser will not able to reach any websites. If the problem persists, please send a copy of your Tor Log to the support team. Restarting Tor will not close your browser tabs.

If i make any changes in the torrc file, this problem occurs. When i delete the added lines, the problem disappear.

Any idea?

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  • ohh one thing! Someone said it might be a permission issue, so Tor cant create the file, but im lost at this point.
    – Pterson
    Commented Apr 12, 2016 at 21:58
  • Try running tor.exe --verify-config and see which line it thinks is the problem. (I can't immediately tell what the problem is... ) But yes, check that UserName has permissions to run Tor in the first place. (i.e. This user must match the user that downloaded and extracted/installed the Tor folder.)
    – Richard Horrocks
    Commented Apr 12, 2016 at 22:05
  • thank you very much for your answer, however i couldnt run tor.exe --verify-config in the command prompt either. it gives me the same result as i mentioned. Im still confused by this permission issue. If i can run tor with the original settings in the torrc file, why i cant do again after i edited it a little with the hidden services lines?
    – Pterson
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 9:31
  • Because you're adding a new location - C:\Users\UserName\tor_service - that Tor must be able to read. If the permissions on C:\Users\UserName\tor_service don't allow read/execute, then Tor will struggle. So --verify config gives no output at all?
    – Richard Horrocks
    Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 9:55
  • on windows I found the answer here: tor.stackexchange.com/a/16015/17207
    – JinSnow
    Commented Oct 31, 2017 at 21:45

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Make sure you have the directory C:\Users\UserName\tor_service and tor has read, write, and execute permissions.

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    Thank You very much for the help! The permission issue is solved and its working! Bless you all! :)
    – Pterson
    Commented Apr 14, 2016 at 14:00
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You edited the wrong torrc file. Instead of editing the one in TorBrowser-Data, try to find another one in /etc/ bin. Regardless, I fixed mine by editing the one there.

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