The document for manually start a local network is not followable

[huahuayu]

Hi, I want manually start a local network based on the document https://docs.avax.network/build/tutorials/platform/create-a-local-test-network/#manually.

Let me copy the steps here

step1

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego

step2

./scripts/build.sh

step3

./build/avalanchego --public-ip=127.0.0.1 --http-port=9650 --staking-port=9651 --db-dir=db/node1 --network-id=local --bootstrap-ips= --staking-tls-cert-file=$(pwd)/staking/local/staker1.crt --staking-tls-key-file=$(pwd)/staking/local/staker1.key

step4

./build/avalanchego --public-ip=127.0.0.1 --http-port=9652 --staking-port=9653 --db-dir=db/node2 --network-id=local --bootstrap-ips=127.0.0.1:9651 --bootstrap-ids=NodeID-7Xhw2mDxuDS44j42TCB6U5579esbSt3Lg --staking-tls-cert-file=$(pwd)/staking/local/staker2.crt --staking-tls-key-file=$(pwd)/staking/local/staker2.key

Omit the other 3 nodes...

Two problems here

1. when executing step3, get an error

couldn't load node config: set "bootstrap-ips" but didn't set "bootstrap-ids"

2. there's no steps to starting a bootstrap node ( 127.0.0.1:9651 ), so the nodes can't find each other

[ceyonur]

1- Thank you for reporting. it seems this one was not updated.
2- The bootstrap node is started in the step3. but since you wasn't able to start it (due to 1) it fails to connect it.

[huahuayu]

if you delete --bootstrap-ips= in the step3, thus the cmd be changed to

./build/avalanchego --public-ip=127.0.0.1 --http-port=9650 --staking-port=9651 --db-dir=db/node1 --network-id=local  --staking-tls-cert-file=$(pwd)/staking/local/staker1.crt --staking-tls-key-file=$(pwd)/staking/local/staker1.key

then it works.

[ceyonur]

Fixed in docs repo.