Unable to Connect

Hi!

Just to cover some common pitfalls:

On the same system that’s running nginx, do these curl requests return any HTTP response code (200, 404, 5xx, etc.)?

curl -v http://127.0.0.1:81/
curl -v –resolve [onion-hostname]:81:127.0.0.1 http://[onion-hostname]:81/

(replace [onion-hostname] including the brackets)

Any response (even a 404) is good enough here as it will at least prove nginx is running and listening on port 81. If you’re listening on a new interface for the first time (like TCP port 81), nginx needs to be restarted; not reloaded.

If those all work, be sure your testing URL has the non-standard port defined, otherwise the browser will try port 80 and fail (since you’ve set the onion service to listen on port 81):

http://2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion:81/

(the above onion is just for demonstrative purposes only)

You should be able to keep listening internally on [127.0.0.1:81](https://127.0.0.1:81) and accept connections on the typical port within Tor by setting `HiddenServicePort 80`

Works for me with obfs4 bridges

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