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Nikto Tool Use
Nikto Tool Use
Nikto Tool Use
Nikto is an Open Source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web
servers for multiple items,
Installing Nikto:
# wget http://cirt.net/nikto/nikto-2.1.5.tar.gz
nikto-2.1.5/
- Nikto v2.1.5
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+ ERROR: No host specified
Note: This is the short help output. Use -H for full help text.
Basic website scan:
To run Nikto with Tor, you will need to be running Tor and edit the nikto.conf file, lines 52-53:
# Proxy settings — still must be enabled by -useproxy
PROXYHOST=127.0.0.1
PROXYPORT=8118