Litecoin daemon is not responding to API calls

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Just before few hour I have setup bitcoin daemon on my ubuntu server and tested it with API and it is responding very well. Now I have installed litecoin daemon on the same server and used copied the same php files with a little sytax changes like change in username and password and port number but it is not responding to any API calls.

Content of litecoin.conf are :

server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=my_username
rpcpassword=mypassword
rpcport=9332

Content of litecoin.php

<?php
include_once('jsonRPCClient.php');
$variable = $_GET['variable'];
$litecoin = new jsonRPCClient('http://my_user:my_password@127.0.0.1:9332/');
if($variable=='getnewaddress')
{
echo $litecoin->getnewaddress();
}
else if($variable=='getinfo')
{
print_r($litecoin->getinfo());
}
else
{
echo "hello";
}
?>

Any help of what I am doing wrong here ?

I was trying to figure out why php file is not throwing any error if there is any then I discovered that error_reporting in php.ini file is turned off after turning it on I got following error while executing litecoin.php on the browser :

Warning: fopen(http://...@myserveraddress.com:9332/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /var/www/jsonRPCClient.php on line 132

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Unable to connect to http://myuser:mypassword@myserveraddress.com:9332/' in /var/www/jsonRPCClient.php:140 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/litecoin.php(12): jsonRPCClient->__call('getinfo', Array) #1 /var/www/litecoin.php(12): jsonRPCClient->getinfo() #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/jsonRPCClient.php on line 140

Khan Shahrukh

Posted 2014-01-12T22:05:02.393

Reputation: 437

You are using HTTP, so you can use an IP packet sniffer to see what's going on. Is your connection accepted by the server? Does the server respond with any kind of HTTP response? – Greg Hewgill – 2014-01-12T22:15:44.517

@GregHewgill I have used the same file with bitcoin daemon with different parameters and its working fine. But litecoin is not working – Khan Shahrukh – 2014-01-12T22:23:08.627

Yes, you already said it wasn't working, but you haven't given any information that would allow anybody to guess a reason. I am suggesting a method for you to do some diagnostics to find out why it is not working. – Greg Hewgill – 2014-01-12T23:59:22.710

Try taking out the server=1 parameter from your litecoin.conf.

If the rpcuser and rpcpassword values are literal in the above configuration (which I expect not) they should match with your $litecoin string (which they don't).

Run ifconfig -a | grep 9332 to see if there is a listening port for 127.0.0.1 (0.0.0.0 is not enough). – George Kimionis – 2014-01-13T00:09:29.017

Answers

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Sometimes this error is thrown because passing too many characters as rpcuser or rpcpassword in the config file I have sorted out this issue with reducing the length of the rpcuser and password and removing special characters

Khan Shahrukh

Posted 2014-01-12T22:05:02.393

Reputation: 437

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First add this line to litecoin.conf

rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

Then make sure you've added the litecoin command to your path

sudo cp litecoind /usr/bin/litecoind

and that your starting the litecoin daemon

litecoind -daemon

and test with 

litecoind getinfo

if all that works then JSON RPC should work fine.

If none of that works try setting up the client by following this guide.

Also make sure your username and password are consistent across your PHP and litecoin.conf because they aren't in your example.

Loourr

Posted 2014-01-12T22:05:02.393

Reputation: 3 022

I have figured out that error_reporting was turned off in my php.ini file that is why it wasn't showing any error, now that I turned them on running litecoin.php on my server shows following error: – Khan Shahrukh – 2014-01-13T11:20:19.927

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