Same IP as before

[vidalia]

I have Privoxy running as well as Vidalia and my Firefox Torbutton says that Tor is enabled. However my IP remains unchanged. Did I miss something?

[edmanm]

Maybe. Did you install everything from a Tor/Vidalia/Privoxy/Torbutton bundle? Or did you set up each of the components individually? If the latter, what line(s) did you add to your Privoxy config? Another thing to check would be your Firefox settings. Torbutton should set these for you, but you might want to double check.

[vidalia]

I installed from the bundle and I checked those setting just in case. Seems to be set correctly.

[edmanm]

You haven't said what your operating system is yet, but I'll guess that means "Windows." Check your Privoxy configuration in %PROGRAMFILES%\Vidalia Bundle\Privoxy\config.txt and make sure you have the following line in there somewhere:

forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 .

The dot at the end is important. Vidalia should install a Privoxy config that has that line in there, but it's worth checking.

Otherwise, are you sure you knew your initial IP address correctly? And are you sure you browser isn't serving up a cached version of whatever page you are using to check your IP address?

[vidalia]

Replying to edmanm:

You haven't said what your operating system is yet, but I'll guess that means "Windows." Check your Privoxy configuration in %PROGRAMFILES%\Vidalia Bundle\Privoxy\config.txt and make sure you have the following line in there somewhere: {{{ forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 . }}} The dot at the end is important. Vidalia should install a Privoxy config that has that line in there, but it's worth checking. Otherwise, are you sure you knew your initial IP address correctly? And are you sure you browser isn't serving up a cached version of whatever page you are using to check your IP address?

Sorry, I'm using windows vista. I added that line (it was indeed missing) with and without the # (tried them separately). I do know that is my ip though. That much I'm certain of. I checked it before I did all that and no change. That and all the test sites say I'm not using TOR.

[edmanm]

That line should not have a # in front of it and you will need to restart Privoxy after you change your config.txt.

[vidalia]

Replying to edmanm:

That line should not have a # in front of it and you will need to restart Privoxy after you change your config.txt.

Worked like a charm. Thanks very much!