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I don't know how to properly explain this, but i think the picture would help me explain.

After getting read of the error "Permission denied", i restarted tor, copied down my tor hidden service onion link http://xabkqgk7mcl3o3zncmefo5yhlbuwvwhxkgfxirtsiuj67zour7ij32qd.onion/, which i searched in the tor browser and the result came out "Server not found". I decided to check my tor status with sudo system status tor@default and the result which is the in the picture.... enter image description here.

Question -What might have gone wrong and how do i resolve the issue and get my site to be running.

Thank you.

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  • So i typed in sudo systemctl start tor@default and the output was
Job for [email protected] failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status [email protected]" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
  • I typed in this second code sudo journalctl -u tor@default the output has up to more than 1000 lines of code, so i don't know how to paste all of it here. 
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopped Anonymizing overlay network for TCP.
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP...
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox tor[2659]: May 25 12:18:52.983 [notice] Tor 0.4.2.7 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.11-stable, Ope>
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox tor[2659]: May 25 12:18:52.993 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe >
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox tor[2659]: May 25 12:18:52.995 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults->
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox tor[2659]: May 25 12:18:52.995 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox tor[2659]: May 25 12:18:52.999 [warn] /home/drago/hidden_service/ is not owned by this user (debian-t>
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox tor[2659]: May 25 12:18:52.999 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to configure rendezvous>
May 25 12:18:52 drago-VirtualBox tor[2659]: May 25 12:18:52.999 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start Anonymizing overlay network for TCP.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopped Anonymizing overlay network for TCP.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP...
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2663]: May 25 12:18:53.224 [notice] Tor 0.4.2.7 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.11-stable, Ope>
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2663]: May 25 12:18:53.227 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe >
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2663]: May 25 12:18:53.227 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults->
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2663]: May 25 12:18:53.227 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2663]: May 25 12:18:53.234 [warn] /home/drago/hidden_service/ is not owned by this user (debian-t>
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2663]: May 25 12:18:53.234 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to configure rendezvous>
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2663]: May 25 12:18:53.235 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to start Anonymizing overlay network for TCP.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: [email protected]: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Stopped Anonymizing overlay network for TCP.
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Starting Anonymizing overlay network for TCP...
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2667]: May 25 12:18:53.495 [notice] Tor 0.4.2.7 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.11-stable, Ope>
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2667]: May 25 12:18:53.496 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe >
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2667]: May 25 12:18:53.496 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults->
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2667]: May 25 12:18:53.496 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
May 25 12:18:53 drago-VirtualBox tor[2667]: May 25 12:18:53.506 [warn] /home/drago/hidden_service/ is not owned by this user (debian-t>
lines 1145-1178
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  • Run sudo systemctl start tor@default and sudo journalctl -u tor@default, then paste the results into your question.
    – Steve
    Commented May 27, 2020 at 20:46

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Your hidden service directory cannot be in a home directory as it's not allowed by the systemd service's security policy. Instead you can use the path /var/lib/tor/hidden_service, and make sure you set the owner to debian-tor.

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  • I changed my hidden service dir from HiddenServiceDir /home/drago/hidden_service/ to HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/. I typed tor and the error message i got was May 28 09:48:13.232 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". May 28 09:48:13.240 [warn] Directory /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/ cannot be read: Permission denied May 28 09:48:13.242 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to configure rendezvous options. See logs for details. May 28 09:48:13.242 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
    – Clinton Vega
    Commented May 28, 2020 at 8:58
  • Also another thing. I don't know how to set the owner to debian-tor
    – Clinton Vega
    Commented May 28, 2020 at 8:59
  • @ClintonVega Are you running tor as a service or running tor directly? You cannot mix them like that. For setting the owner, look up the chown command.
    – Steve
    Commented May 28, 2020 at 15:44
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sudo chown -R debian-tor: /var/lib/tor
sudo systemctl restart [email protected]
sudo systemctl status [email protected]

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