Hitchhiker's Guide to Hiding on the Internet for MacFolks

Recently updated my Vidalia App and I got in to some issues with polipo. I redo the entire installation and proceed as follows:


Vidalia 0.2.10
Tor 0.2.1.25

Download Vidalia directly from the website: http://www.torproject.org/vidalia/

Install MacPorts
sudo port install tor
sudo port install polipo
sudo port load polipo


Polipo Configuration Guide:

polipo does not come with a working config you have to make your own or just copy and customize the sample configs found on /opt/local/etc/polipo/ here's how i did mine.

sudo touch /opt/local/etc/polipo/config

Open an editor program (vi/etc) and put the following config

socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050"
socksProxyType = socks5

Port 9050 is the tor deamon.

to verify your polipo config

http://localhost:8123

Vidalia Settings

Stop Start the Vidalia Daemon (Gui)

and point your proxy to

IP: localhost
Port: 8123

enjoy secure surfing via tor.

to check your tor presence go to the following link.

https://check.torproject.org