How to setup a weechat relay with Tor

Using Tor as a means for a Weechat relay is a nice way to have a private connection to your home PC's IRC session without having to port forward.

In a weechat session:

/relay add weechat 9000
/set relay.network.bind_address "::"
/set relay.network.allowed_ips "127.0.0.1"
/set relay.network.allow_empty_password on
/save

Add these lines to your torrc, usually in /etc/tor/torrc or /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc:

HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/weechat/
HiddenServicePort 9000 127.0.0.1:9000

In a shell, as root:

mkdir /var/lib/tor/weechat
chown debian-tor:debian-tor /var/lib/tor/weechat # Change debian-tor to whoever is the owner of /var/lib/tor
chmod 700 /var/lib/tor/weechat

Then restart Tor and you're finished.