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Does anyone here have experience with the etherparty/explorer blockchain explorer? I am having trouble connecting. I keep getting the error message

"Allow Access to Geth and Refresh the Page"

when I access localhost:8000.

I was running geth and had the same error messages, but now I am running parity. Here is how I invoke parity:

parity --chain dev  --dapps-apis-all --jsonrpc-cors "http://localhost:8000" --jsonrpc-apis "web3, eth" --jsonrpc-hosts="all" --networkid="<private-number>" --force-ui --ui-no-validation

Here is how etherparty/explorer says to invoke geth:

geth --rpc --rpccorsdomain "http://localhost:8000"

The RPC port is available at localhost:8545.

EDIT: I have since tested with geth, using the main net. I get the same error. So I am trying other things. Maybe it's how I'm installing (or failing to install) web3?

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  • Does it work if you remove the jsonrpc-apis flag? Just a thought.
    – q9f
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 7:45
  • @5chdn: no it doesn't. Out of curiosity, why did you think it might? The doc specifically says to use that. I'm not criticizing, I just want to know what your thought was.
    – stone.212
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 23:28
  • Was just thinking maybe some api calls are not accepted.
    – q9f
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 23:39

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Not a complete answer, but might help...

Poking around at their code, the error is output when this part is run:

    if(!web3.isConnected()) {
        $('#connectwarning').modal({keyboard:false,backdrop:'static'}) 
        $('#connectwarning').modal('show') 
    }

Which implies there's a failure in the following code:

var eth_node_url = 'http://localhost:8545'; // TODO: remote URL
web3.setProvider(new web3.providers.HttpProvider(eth_node_url));
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  • Ah, yes. So I could hack it by giving that a false positive (since I know web3 is connected.) Thank you. I will let you know how it goes tomorrow.
    – stone.212
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 9:02
  • Sounds like a plan. I've updated the answer with a link to the part of their code.
    – Richard Horrocks
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 9:08
  • Or have a look at @5chdn's idea in the comment on the question :-)
    – Richard Horrocks
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 9:10
  • Actually I think I may have failed to install web3. I thought I did it (ran "bower install" in the parity directory) but maybe not....
    – stone.212
    Commented Mar 17, 2017 at 23:52
  • That wasn't it. I see ""GET /bower_components/web3/dist/web3.min.js" "Mozilla...." And I have re-installed geth, so it's not parity. I'm puzzled but I guess I'll just start digging through the code. BTW when I "fixed" those lines nothing displayed at all. That's what made me think maybe web3 wasn't available.
    – stone.212
    Commented Mar 18, 2017 at 0:31
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I did all of these things. But the problem was that the site has to be viewed in a graphical browser. Since the explorer runs server-side, I was SSHed in and viewing with w3m. Once I looked at the code pointed out by @Richard Horrocks, it became clear.

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