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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: OTK47 on March 09, 2014, 11:39:57 AM



Title: Multiple bitcoind/qt on one computer
Post by: OTK47 on March 09, 2014, 11:39:57 AM
Basically, I would like to run multiple separate versions of bitcoind on the same device. The reason for this is that I need the wallets to connect to separate programs via rpc (armory, counterpartyd and potentially the new mastercoin wallet). The problem I had is that to do this, I have to change the rpc username/password in the bitcoin.conf file so that it is compatible with each of these programs. I can't make one version of bitcoind compatible with all of these programs together. I was advised to download different versions of bitcoind, is this possible to do on one computer? If so, how? Thanks.


Title: Re: Multiple bitcoind/qt on one computer
Post by: BookLover on March 09, 2014, 08:26:56 PM
You can multiple instances of bitcoind if you use different data directories.  Just create a shortcut for each of the instances you want to run and add -datadir=C:\"data_directory_for_that_instance" to the target line.


Title: Re: Multiple bitcoind/qt on one computer
Post by: OTK47 on March 09, 2014, 09:28:08 PM
Thanks