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Sergey Potekhin
Sergey Potekhin

Reputation: 701

How to connect Mist to the private blockchain on remote server (Azure)?

I've installed Mist on my local PC (Windows 10), but I don't want to sync Main/Test networks. So I've used this Ethereum + Azure tutorial and now I can work via SSH on my private network.

geth --dev console

More than that, I know that it's possible to run Mist on custom blockchain using special flag

mist.exe --rpc http://YOUR_IP:PORT

So, according to geth --help, I'm running geth --dev --rpc console on Azure's virtual machine, after that I'm running mist.exe --rpc http://VM_IP:8545 and there is an error:

[2016-09-24 18:01:21.928] [INFO] Sockets/node-ipc - Connect to {"hostPort":"http://VM_IP:8545"}
[2016-09-24 18:01:24.968] [ERROR] Sockets/node-ipc - Connection failed (3000ms elapsed)
[2016-09-24 18:01:24.971] [WARN] EthereumNode - Failed to connect to node. Maybe it's not running so let's start our own...
[2016-09-24 18:01:24.979] [INFO] EthereumNode - Node type: geth
[2016-09-24 18:01:24.982] [INFO] EthereumNode - Network: test
[2016-09-24 18:01:24.983] [INFO] EthereumNode - Start node: geth test
[2016-09-24 18:01:32.284] [INFO] EthereumNode - 3000ms elapsed, assuming node started up successfully
[2016-09-24 18:01:32.286] [INFO] EthereumNode - Started node successfully: geth test
[2016-09-24 18:01:32.327] [INFO] Sockets/node-ipc - Connect to {"hostPort":"http://VM_IP:8545"}
[2016-09-24 18:02:02.332] [ERROR] Sockets/node-ipc - Connection failed (30000ms elapsed)
[2016-09-24 18:02:02.333] [ERROR] EthereumNode - Failed to connect to node Error: Unable to connect to socket: timeout

P.S. Mist version - 0.8.2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5097

Answers (1)

Chevdor
Chevdor

Reputation: 771

Your approach is correct. I would say that you have a network configuration issue that prevents your Mist to talk to geth. I would suggest doing the following test and see if you run into the same issue: - on the machine where you have Mist, find the geth.exe executable - run geth with geth --testnet --rpc - start mist with ./Mist --rpc /.../Ethereum/testnet/geth.ipc or ./Mist --rpc http://localhost:8545

I am on a Mac so I guess you will have to reverse the / and add some C: decorations here and there.

Upvotes: 1

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