Wrong examples for running RPC

[kostaz]

Location: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples#testing-applications

The examples for running bitcoin-cli (and, possibly, bitcoind/bitcoin-qt) are wrong:

$ ./bitcoin-cli -regtest getnewaddress
error: You must set rpcpassword= in the configuration file:
/home/kostaz/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
If the file does not exist, create it with owner-readable-only file permissions.

Tested from master branch:

$ git log --decorate -1
commit b7bba43a14a641b6b64bbf48357b2987c1b05800 (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master)
Merge: 2870014 d2d9dc0
Author: Wladimir J. van der Laan laanwj@gmail.com
Date: Thu Jul 31 09:26:44 2014 +0200

I suggest to to fix examples to be copy-paste ready and not just show the the concept.

[harding]

@kostaz Thanks for the report! I just pushed commit 9c4332c which describes how to set the RPC password to the developer examples. The new text will appear on the page in about 10 to 15 minutes.

However, it looks like you already skipped over some of the instructions---"In order to use this tutorial, you will need to setup Bitcoin Core and create a regression test mode environment with 50 BTC in your test wallet."

Once you setup the RPC password and give yourself 50 BTC in regtest mode, you should be able to follow the rest of the instructions.

Thanks again! -Dave