I2P - YOUR SITE ON THE I2P NETWORK (EEPSITE)

Besides HTTP, Gemini, Gopher and Nex, your runv.club account also publishes on the I2P network. It is the fourth public space of the house: an "eepsite", that is, a site served inside the anonymous I2P network, outside the ordinary web.

WHAT IS AN EEPSITE

An eepsite is a site that only exists inside the I2P network. Instead of a common domain, it has its own address ending in .b32.i2p — a long string of letters and numbers. To open an eepsite you need an I2P client running on your computer; it does not show up in a normal browser without that client.

YOUR PUBLIC I2P FOLDER

Every account has a public_i2p folder in its home. Anything you put there is public on the I2P network; do not keep secrets in it. It ships with an example index.html, ready to edit.

HOW TO SEE YOUR ADDRESS

Your .b32.i2p address is generated by the server. To see it, log in over SSH and run:

• runv-i2p show — shows your address and the state of your eepsite;
• runv-i2p guide — a quick explanation;
• runv-i2p request — if yours is ever inactive, asks for activation.

The address is public: share it freely with anyone who uses I2P.

HOW TO PUBLISH

Your starting point is the index.html file in public_i2p. Edit it and create as many pages as you like, just like a normal HTML site.

• edit ~/public_i2p/index.html;
• create more pages and subfolders and link them with normal links (href);
• keep 755 on folders and 644 on files, so the server can read them.

Once enabled, the eepsite may take a few minutes to become reachable, while the I2P network publishes the routes to your site.

HOW TO VISIT EEPSITES

To visit any eepsite (yours or another member's) you need an I2P client, such as i2pd or the official I2P, running on your machine. With the client active, open http://ADDRESS.b32.i2p/ through the I2P proxy.

PRIVACY

The eepsite is served inside I2P, a network built for privacy and censorship resistance. Even so, because it is hosted on a known server (runv.club), think of it as your presence on I2P rather than fully anonymous hosting: the content is public and the house operator knows which address belongs to whom.

PERMISSIONS

The rule is the same as the other protocols: 755 on your home and on the public_i2p folder, 644 on served files. If the site stops opening, start by restoring these values.