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Title: Unable to connect via CLI Post by: btc123 on May 26, 2012, 02:30:40 AM Can somebody please explain this to me like I'm 12?
I want to automate various online transactions but I always get: $ ./bitcoind getbalance error: couldn't connect to server $ cat bitcoin.conf rpcpassword=********** # Is this my wallet password? rpcallowip=192.168.1.2 rpcssl=1 rpcsslciphers=DEFAULT:@STRENGTH Title: Re: Unable to connect via CLI Post by: a654bdff on May 27, 2012, 01:33:55 AM Can somebody please explain this to me like I'm 12? I want to automate various online transactions but I always get: $ ./bitcoind getbalance error: couldn't connect to server $ cat bitcoin.conf rpcpassword=********** # Is this my wallet password? rpcallowip=192.168.1.2 rpcssl=1 rpcsslciphers=DEFAULT:@STRENGTH No that's not your wallet password. It's your password for the RPC service. The RPC service is what's exposed via port 8332. It's only responsive to requests from the same machine by default (127.0.0.1). Adding the rpcallowip will 'allow' other IPs to *remotely* connect. Also, you need to set rpcuser. Any code you have to talk to this (perl, php, ruby, etc) will use rpcuser/rpcpassword to authenticate to the RPC service and 'do things'. |