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Onionspray building blocks

Onionspray has the following building blocks:

  • Server: or a "machine", is any computer where Onionspray runs -- and you can run it in multiple servers.
  • Repository: the Onionspray repository.
  • Installation: a working copy of the repository, used to host Onion Service proxies.
  • Site: a single Onion Service site that maps a DNS-based domain such as example.org (an optionally all it's subdomains) into an .onion address.
  • Project: a project set of sites; each project has it's own instances of C Tor (to run the Onion Services) and OpenResty (for the reverse rewriting proxy).

A server can host many Onionspray installations, each one with many projects, and each project with many sites.