Description

A brief guide to set up a Shadowsocks server on a Debian-based system using binary releases and systemd.

Steps

1. Pre-requisites

Download and extract the Shadowsocks-Rust binary, and move it to /usr/local/bin for system-wide access:

wget [BINARY_RELEASE_URL]

tar -xvf shadowsocks-rust-<VERSION>-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz

sudo cp ssserver /usr/local/bin/

2. Server Configuration

Create a config file for the Shadowsocks server under directory /etc/ with the following content (modify as needed):