personal_newAccount does not exist/is not available

[362228416]

web3.personal.newAccount('123456', function(e, res){
    console.log(e, res)
});

output

The method personal_newAccount does not exist/is not available] undefine

[karalabe]

Are you running with code from the Geth console or from an external JavaScript environment? If you connect an external environment to Geth via the HTTP-RPC interface, by default the personal namespace is not available due to security considerations.

[362228416]

How to start ?

[362228416]

I need use rpc call newAccount 、 sendTransaction .. api , how to ?

[362228416]

It is done.

[omkarkhair]

Can you please elaborate on how this was done?

[karalabe]

If you want to use the personal namespace, either do if from the Geth console or attach to Geth via an IPC connection that's assumed to be secure. Anything else is irresponsible :P

[raza-basit]

Run your node with --rpc and --rpcapi personal,web3 flags.

i.e. geth --dev --rpcapi personal,web3,eth --rpc

You may need to add --rpccorsdomain "<your-domain>", in case you are using web3 in the web.

geth --dev --rpcapi personal,web3,eth --rpccorsdomain "your-domain"

[mclrk]

I want to have two computers: 1 that hosts my web application and 1 that hosts my GETH node. Is there a safe way to have the web app make rpc calls to the geth node? I want the web app to have accesss to the "personal" api.

[362228416]

@mclrk Limit network access, use firewall to restrict IP, or nginx reverse proxy, and configure HTTP basic

[junnyxi]

after startup， there is a brief：
modules: admin:1.0 debug:1.0 eth:1.0 miner:1.0 net:1.0 personal:1.0 rpc:1.0 shh:1.0 txpool:1.0 web3:1.0

so，the command will be：
./geth --rpc --rpcport 19910 --rpcapi personal,web3,eth,net --datadir testNet --dev console 2>> test.log

[agiratech-guru]

@junnyxi how to get some Faucet coins for that address