rpcpassword supposedly unset with -testnet #455

issue Plasma opened this issue on August 8, 2011

Plasma commented at 8:49 AM on August 8, 2011: none

PROBLEM Hi,

Running bitcoind.exe under Windows with the -testnet flag shows:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin\daemon>bitcoind.exe -testnet Warning: To use bitcoind, you must set rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file: C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin/testnet/bitcoin.conf

If the file does not exist, create it with owner-readable-only file permissions.

I created and verified this file existed at the location, and had the rpcpassword (and rpcuser etc lines) all set.

The error persisted.

I then round Issue #78 which indicates the config file really being read is at C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf for -testnet (contrary to what the error message says).

I then created C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin/testnet.conf and then ran:

bitcoind.exe -testnet -conf=testnet.conf

And my problem disappeared.

SOLUTION The error message should be updated to point to the right config file that bitcoind.exe is looking for, instead of being misleading.

Thanks
jgarzik commented at 9:40 PM on July 5, 2012: contributor

It looks in the testnet (now testnet3) directory by default, when -testnet is specified
jgarzik closed this on Jul 5, 2012
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