Hugo

Short story: I wanted comments and a proper RSS feed on my Hugo + PaperMod site. Longer story: I spent 30 minutes poking around, and now you don’t have to. Here’s exactly what I did. I’ve been wanting to add comment section to my blog for a while. There are a few problems. I don’t want to get attacked by bots or random people for no reason. I don’t want to allow weird things to happen. I don’t want to have a database for it. So… I decided to take a path which is not necesserially the best. It requires a third party to act on your behalf, but it is not as scary as it sounds. According to Github: ...

I tried to add a simple ‘views’ counter to my PaperMod blog. It worked—until it didn’t. Here’s the story of blank numbers, a mysterious Chinese message, and the final fix.

TL;DR — The site is built once (Hugo project), published twice: Onion: http://fjthpp2h3mj2rup25r3psmqamutnkbvxbpltlohdthw6fscgo3t6bpad.onion/ via Tor, no TLS/HSTS, bound to 127.0.0.1:3301. Clearnet: https://blog.alipourimjourneys.ir behind Cloudflare, Let’s Encrypt cert, Onion-Location header pointing to the onion mirror. 1) Tor hidden service (onion) basics I used Tor’s v3 onion services and mapped onion port 80 → my local web server on 127.0.0.1:3301. Install & configure Tor (Debian/Ubuntu): sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y tor sudoedit /etc/tor/torrc Add: ...