Install-ElectrumX.md

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Initial installation

Use this repo to install electrumx easily https://github.com/bauerj/electrumx-installer

For Vitae ElectrumX installation follow this repo instead https://github.com/VitaeTeam/electrumx-installer

After install configuration

Now we need to edit the electrumx config file to match our daemon and other specifics

Use nano or other methods to edit the /etc/electrumx.conf file.If the user isnt root use sudo nano /etc/electrumx.conf so that edits can be saved.

The electrumx default config should look something like this:

# default /etc/electrumx.conf for systemd
# REQUIRED

DB_DIRECTORY = /db

# Bitcoin Node RPC Credentials

DAEMON_URL = http://username:password@hostname:port/

# See http://electrumx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/environment.html for

# information about other configuration settings you probably want to consider.


DB_ENGINE=rocksdb

SSL_CERTFILE=/etc/electrumx/server.crt

SSL_KEYFILE=/etc/electrumx/server.key

TCP_PORT=50001

SSL_PORT=50002

# Listen on all interfaces:

HOST=

Now we need to add the following in the config file of electrumx

NET=mainnet
COIN=YourCoinName (For example Vitae)
SERVICES=ssl://:50002

Finally we need to edit the DAEMON_URL to match our daemon,this is the format

DAEMON_URL=http://rpcusernamehere:rpcpasswordhere@localhost:rpcporthere/

NOTE : Make sure the daemon has txindex=1 so that it can index utxos of non wallet txes,if it doesnt,add txindex=1 to the daemon config and reindex before you start electrumx.

Now that we are configured and ready,we will start the electrumx service via systemctl start electrumx