I am trying to get the JSON RPC interface working on Electrum, but it isn't listening on the port.

I tried:
$ electrum setconfig rpcport 7777
$ electrum daemon start

However there is no process listening on the RPC port.

I was told this is what I need to do here: http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/merchant.html

I installed it to the exact specifications on the website. I'm am thinking the issue might be related to Fedora's hobbled OpenSSL. So I am going to try it on Debian and see how it goes. Though everything else works.

Edit: Yes, this is an issue with Fedora 21's limited OpenSSL support. One would have to build their own OpenSSL, and compile python for it to use electrum on that distribution. It is working fine on Debian. There are issues with cryptocurrency in general on these operating systems.

I have the electrum client installed on a headless system. I want to creating a watching only version of an existing wallet, as mentioned on the tutorials page. It seems this feature is only supported from the GUI. I am wondering how I can go about doing this from the text or stdio interface. This is so that I can use the client on a server to generate addresses by having a script communicate with it through stdio. I am a bit lost on how to achieve this but I really need it done.

Doing what the tutorial says doesn't work either when using the GUI. It simply exits are choosing to create a watching only version of an existing wallet.