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Title: "error: to use bitcoind, you must set a rpcpassword in the configuration file" Post by: prophetx on January 10, 2014, 05:52:02 PM i get this trying to run bitcoind on win8, i have a conf file with a rpcpassword
---- related problem is that when i run bitcoin-qt with daemon and server set to 1, i cannot connect to the rpc port from localhost. ---- i can get this to work on linux, i just cannot figure out what to do on windows. please help. Title: Re: "error: to use bitcoind, you must set a rpcpassword in the configuration file" Post by: Abdussamad on January 10, 2014, 07:07:43 PM TRy specifying a data directory:
bitcoind -datadir=c:\whatever\whatever\ getinfo Title: Re: "error: to use bitcoind, you must set a rpcpassword in the configuration file" Post by: prophetx on January 10, 2014, 07:21:09 PM TRy specifying a data directory: bitcoind -datadir=c:\whatever\whatever\ getinfo thanks! i figured it out, i had a new laptop and forgot windows hides file extensions by default so i had bitcoin.conf.conf woops... |