From 425cb18e07b2e028b6d8cbda1ffed00043063308 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Dingledine Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:38:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clean up win32 instructions more svn:r3162 --- doc/tor-doc.html | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tor-doc.html b/doc/tor-doc.html index 66064297ac..0cf593e964 100644 --- a/doc/tor-doc.html +++ b/doc/tor-doc.html @@ -144,10 +144,12 @@ tor-0.0.9.tar.gz; cd tor-0.0.9. Run ./configure, then make, and then make install (as root if necessary). Then you can launch tor from the command-line by running tor.

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Win32 users can use our Tor installer. It will run Tor in a dos window, -so you can see its logs, and see its error messages if it exits. If you -don't want the default configuration, it comes with a torrc file that -you can edit. +

Win32 users can use our Tor installer. It will run Tor in a dos window +so you can see its logs and errors. (You can minimize this window, but +do not close it.) You can edit Tor's configuration by changing the torrc +file that is installed, but the default config should be fine. After +installing Tor, you should install Privoxy and configure it to use Tor +as described below.

Otherwise, if you got it prepackaged (e.g. in the href="http://www.privoxy.org/">privoxy, which is a filtering web proxy that integrates well with Tor. Add the line
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
-(don't forget the dot) to its config file (you can just add it to the +(don't forget the dot) to privoxy's config file (you can just add it to the top). Then change your mozilla to http proxy at localhost port 8118 (and no socks proxy). You should also set your SSL proxy to the same thing, to hide your https traffic. Using privoxy is necessary because