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It's also possible to use a Unix socket, which can have a descriptive pathname like /var/run/my-service.sock: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69313114/using-nginx-to-...

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Every time I've tried using Unix sockets, I've run into the problem as described in your stackoverflow link. The suggested solution ("just run tor as root") is not exactly best practice.

You can monkey-patch scripts around Tor service activation, but I haven't been able to get my Tor+nginx setup to work reliably after updates/service restarts when using unix sockets.

using unix socket rather than tcp has advantages

Can you elaborate?

For starters, it’s twice as fast

AFAIK TCP outperforms Unix sockets for some odd reason, but it's irrelevant anyway because you aren't getting that much bandwidth through Tor.

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