Tiny Tiny RSS over TOR

Table of contents #

• Table of contents
• Installation
• Hacking
• Note
• Footnotes

Installation #

1. install and configure TOR, Privoxy and TT-RSS

   apt-get install tor privoxy tt-rss
   

2. configure Privoxy. Add this to /etc/privoxy/config

   forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .
   listen-address 127.0.0.1:8123
   

3. follow the ArchWiki instructions using MariaDB as backend. Also follow these instructions to configure MariaDB
4. follow the install setup of TT-RSS

5. add this to you Apache virtual host

   DocumentRoot "/usr/share/tt-rss/www"
   <Directory "/usr/share/tt-rss/www">
       AllowOverride All
       Options FollowSymlinks
       php_admin_value open_basedir "/tmp/:/usr/share/tt-rss/www/lib/dijit:/usr/share/tt-rss/www/lib/dojo:/usr/share/tt-rss/www/lib/phpqrcode:/usr/share/tt-rss/www/lib/scriptaculous:/usr/share/tt-rss/www/include:/var/lib/tt-rss:/usr/share/tt-rss/www/lib:/usr/share/tt-rss/www:/usr/share/php:/etc/tt-rss:/var/log/tt-rss:/var/cache/tt-rss"
       Require all granted
   </Directory>
   
   Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
   SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/my-domain.example.com/fullchain.pem
   SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/my-domain.example.com/privkey.pem
   

Hacking #

1. have a look at https://binfalse.de/2015/05/06/ttrss-with-proxy/¹. Since then the variables have changed and so here are some adaptations:

   1. apt search tt-rss and get the version:

      tt-rss/stable,now 18.12+dfsg-1.1 all [installed]
      Tiny Tiny RSS - web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator
      

   2. find a commit in the source code corresponsing to that version

      git clone https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss
      cd tt-rss
      git checkout 986ca251f995f7754a0470d3e0c44538a545081f       # This commit roughly corresponds to version 18.12 as identified earlier.
      

   3. search for PROXY strings:

      grep -rn PROXY *
      

      which results in:

      include/functions.php:376:			if (defined('_HTTP_PROXY')) {
      include/functions.php:377:				curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, _HTTP_PROXY);
      include/functions.php:484:			if (defined('_HTTP_PROXY')) {
      include/functions.php:486:				$context_options['http']['proxy'] = _HTTP_PROXY;
      plugins/af_unburn/init.php:40:				if (defined('_CURL_HTTP_PROXY')) {
      plugins/af_unburn/init.php:41:					curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, _CURL_HTTP_PROXY);
      

   4. add the following at the end of /etc/tt-rss/config.php. These variables should cover even more recent TT-RSS versions:

      define('HTTP_PROXY', '127.0.0.1:8123');
      define('_HTTP_PROXY', '127.0.0.1:8123');
      define('_CURL_HTTP_PROXY', '127.0.0.1:8123');
      define('SELF_USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0');
      

2. finally restart the services: systemctl restart tt-rss apache2 privoxy

Note #

Please note that this page is deprecated and will only be kept for historical reference. Have a look at https://docs.franco.net.eu.org/ftutorials/en/content/server/tt-rss.html#torification for an updated version.

Footnotes #