Beginners Guide for Iquidus Explorer Setup

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Beginners Guide for Iquidus Explorer Setup

This Tutorial is going to create a Daemon (node) and install Explorer. Paisa coin is used here as example
THIS IS NOT GOING TO CREATE A GUI CLIENT.

Follow the instructions in [whatever coin name] docs folder Unix build - some builds are different.

I have tested and setup multiple time with help of this upon Ubuntu 16.04 with no issues.
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IF YOU NEED HELP PLEASE CONTACT ME ON DISCORD (QJUSAM#1739) OR TELEGRAM (@SAMQJU)

Assuming you have created a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS VPS follow these steps

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Update System
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

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Basic packages to build the coin
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sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libdb++-dev libboost-all-dev libqrencode-dev miniupnpc libminiupnpc-dev autoconf pkg-config libtool autotools-dev libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev automake -y

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Compile & Configure your coin 
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sudo git clone https://github.com/samqju/Paisa.git
cd Paisa/src/
sudo make -f makefile.unix

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or for any newer code/ different algo coin instructions may be different as below
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./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

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After compiling the coin daemon, Add RPC & Server settings by Create a conf file
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cd
sudo nano .paisa/paisa.conf

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Add these lines
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rpcuser=paisacoin4u
rpcpassword=mylove4u
listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
txindex=1
rpcport=XXXXXX (here use your coin's actual rpc port)

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Start the coin daemon
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cd Paisa/src
./paisad -daemon -txindex

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Install MongoDB
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sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

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check if mongodb is installed and working correctly, with these commands
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sudo service mongod start
cd /var/log/mongodb
tail mongod.log

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Last line of output will be like this 
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# [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017

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Setup MongoDB
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mongo
use explorerdb
db.createUser( { user: "iquidus", pwd: "3xp!0reR", roles: [ "readWrite" ] } )
exit

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Install Node.js and Npm
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs nodejs-legacy -y
sudo apt-get install npm -y

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Install Iquidis Block Explorer
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cd
git clone https://github.com/iquidus/explorer.git
sudo apt-get install libkrb5-dev -y
cd explorer && npm install --production
cp ./settings.json.template ./settings.json

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Configure Iquidis - IF YOU NEED HELP PLEASE CONTACT ME ON DISCORD OR TELEGRAM
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nano settings.json

"title": "EXPLORER TITLE",
"address": "explorer link",  
"coin": "NAME OF COIN",
"symbol": "coin ticker",

 // wallet settings
  "wallet": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "your coin rpc port,
    "user": "paisacoin4u",
    "pass": "mylove4u"
    
 // menu settings
  "display": {
    "markets": true, - Only supported if your coin is listed in bittrex or cryptopia

 // index page (valid options for difficulty are POW, POS or Hybrid)
  "index": {
    "difficulty": "POW", (change it to the option suitable for your coin)

  // ensure links on API page are valid
  "api": {
    "blockindex": 1, - basically any valid block number of your coin's blockchain
    "blockhash": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", - from your local wallet get block hash of any any valid block of your coin's blockchain, 
    "txhash": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", - from your local wallet get txid of any any valid block of your coin's block chain,
    "address": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" any valid address on your coin's network
  },
  
// market settings
     "coin": "xxx", add your coin's ticker
     
//genesis
  "genesis_tx": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", update with your coin's genesis block details, "getblock 0 or showblock 0"
  "genesis_block": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",

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Start Explorer & Sync Database
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cd /root/explorer
screen -S npm - This will start a screen service which will make it easy for you to monitor things
npm start - this will start explorer service, now you can exi the screen by pressing Ctrl+A+D

cd /root/explorer
screen -S update - This will start a screen service which will make it easy for you to monitor things
sudo node scripts/sync.js index update - this will start sync and now you will start seeing block numbers getting synced

EXIT THE SCREEN AGAIN BY PRESSING CTRL+A+D

NOW GO TO YOUR EXPLORER LINK AND YOU CAN SEE BLOCKS GETTING UPDATED, ONCE SYNC IS COMEPLETED YOU NEED TO CREATE CRONTABS SO THAT YOUR EXPLORER GETS SYNC REGULARLY

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Adding Crontabs
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sudo crontab -e - here it might ask you which editor you want to use I prefer nano you can choose anyone

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Add these lines at the bottom of file
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*/1 * * * * cd /root/explorer && /usr/bin/nodejs scripts/sync.js index update > /dev/null 2>&1  
*/2 * * * * cd /root/explorer && /usr/bin/nodejs scripts/sync.js market > /dev/null 2>&1  
*/5 * * * * cd /root/explorer && /usr/bin/nodejs scripts/peers.js > /dev/null 2>&1  

hi. i am currently trying to setup iquidus for my coin and im not sure i am doing it right.

i have the block explore installed on digital ocean at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

our wallet is running on digital ocean as well at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

our default rpc port is 7143

Hi friend,I successfully setup a block explorer on 1st vps and wallet/daemon on my another vps ...I don't know If I configured correctly...But after successfully setup ...My block explorer is opened ...bUT nothing showing there ..No blocks ,,,only blank table