Tutorial - Start Your Own Faucet.
Hello Bitcoiners,
I saw almost 70% of Bitcoiners doesn't know how to setup your own Faucet and run it. So Today, I am their to help you out with a fully explained tutorial about how to start your own faucet.
Ready? Lets go!
We will do this tutorial step by step. So now we begin with Step 1!
Step 1First of all open
www.faucetbox.com and click Faucet Script, then download it and save it on your desktop.
Step 2Now, go to
www.000webhost.com and click Sign up.
Now you see their will be option to select your domain, please select "or, I will choose your free subdomain (recommended)".
Enter your domain name you want, could be any for the tutorial.
Now enter your credential details and click Create my Account.
Step 3Now confirm your email and once confirmed, your domain will be working.
Now after confirming the email, click refresh status and if its properly confirmed, then click go to cPanel.
Step 4Click on MySQL option and enter these details:
MySQL database name: type faucet
MySQL user name: again type faucet
Password for MySQL user: here type a password
Enter password again: retype the password
and click create Database!
Copy the details shown in a notepad.
Now click back to control panel.
Now, Open your faucet script folder (extract it if not done yet) and open config.php file with notepad.
You have to edit these settings :
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "test_faucet";
$dbpass = "test_pass";
$dbname = "test_faucet";
TO
$dbhost = "the host link which you copied earlier (Ex: mysql.000webhost.com)";
$dbuser = "your MYSQL username";
$dbpass = "your password";
$dbname = "Your Mysql Database name";
and click SAVE.
Step 5Go Back to Control Panel and Scroll down and find File Manager, then it will open a new window, Enter your login password.
Once a new window is open click Public_Html folder.
Step 6Now open your faucetinabox folder and select all files (CTRL+A) and make them .zip file and name it faucet.
You will see a .zip file the folder, now cut the file and paste it on the desktop.
Step 7Now go back to your browser, click Browse button on the right side.
Select the faucet.zip we just saved on the desktop and upload it by clicking on a green tick on the left side.
Step 8Now once files are uploaded, open your website in a new tab.
You will see a page with a password. save the password and then click continue.
Step 9Now enter that password in this box.
Your Admin Page will come.
Step 10Go back to
www.faucetbox.com and Register or Login.
Once you login or register, you will see a API Key.
Copy the Key and go back to your faucet's admin page.
Enter your API key in the Admin Page.
Step 11Select Current BTC.
Now time to get a Captcha Service, select reCaptcha and then click "get your keys here".
A new page will open, enter label as : Your Faucet name and in the next box enter your domain name without (www or http)
and then click Register.
Step 12Now you will see two keys provided.
First copy the Site Key and go back to your Admin Page and put the copied key in "reCaptcha Public Key" section.
Now copy the Secret Key and go back to your Admin Page and put the copied key in "reCaptcha Private Key" section.
Step 13Time to setup reward, its the amount of bitcoins you want to give user everytime the claim.
You can enter like "50, 100, 200, 500" which means that randomly user will get between 50 to 500.
You can edit it anytime.
Step 14Now name your Faucet anything you want to and you can also add a slogan if you want to.
Now you see timer which means that after how many minutes a user can claim a reward. by default its 180 min = 3 Hours.
You can edit it anytime.
Step 15Now you can setup referral earning percentage, put 0 to disable the referral system.
Step 16Now time to setup your Faucet Design. Choose your colors and stuff you want to.
Step 17You see blank boxes "Top Box, Left Box, Right Box" these are basically box in your faucet to put ads or any other link.
I will simply put my tutorial link their. You can keep them blank if you want.
Step 18Now, Pages. You can create any page like statistics page for your faucet or any other page. Leave it if you dont want to create a page.
Step 19Finally, Click Save.
Open your website and you got a faucet! My Faucet -
http://faucet-tutorial.site11.comStep 20You see Balance: N/A satoshi?? Which means 0 Bitcoins.. Yup!
Go to faucetbox.com again and login if required.
Once logged in, you see your Dashboard.
Scroll down and in front of Bitcoins, you see click Activate button.
Click on the Activate Button and copy the bitcoin wallet address.
Open your wallet and send minimum 0.001 Bitcoins to the wallet to update your faucet balance.
Step 21Once you deposited and got 1 confirmation, you are ready to share your faucet address!
If it helped you, Please donate some Bitcoins to : 17Y562iYMACaw4vyRYEcNmYjgzD3kGZDi8
Thank You.
