@alcinnz Hey, fun, I know some of this stuff .. but also you can use my tool "carml" to easily get information that the Tor daemon is emitting. See https://carml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You can also very easily launch an Onion service after installing my other project https://meejah.ca/projects/txtorcon by doing: twistd web --port "onion:80" --path ~/public_html
(If you're on Debian, the above should work after an "apt install python3-txtorcon")