Need help with insight explorer

[wreckski]

Hey everyone,
I'm trying to get insight explorer to work with my project and for the life of me just having issues. I've altered the files, have a wallet running a node on our network and just cant seem to get it to work. Anyone have experiance with this? Our project is darksaga, we rebrand from sagacoin. It's based off bitcoin wallet. Do I actually need a bitcoin node running to get this to work with my altcoin? Any help would be great