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My issue is I cannot get RPC working with Bitcoin Core. I do not know what I'm doing wrong! When I first installed Bitcoin Core it did not come with a bitcoin.conf file so I created one with the following details:

server=1
rpcuser=root
rpcpassword=password
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
rpcport=8332

That's all I have in there. And yes my Bitcoin Core client is in sync with the bitcoin network.

I've also checked my router and it is UPNP enabled and I literally see the port in my router's configuration open. The port is: 8333

And it is the only port open. Do not know if I need 8332 open. Please shed some light on this for me. What I am trying to accomplish is to get PHP to interact with bitcoind such as generate a new bitcoin address.

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    Is the script trying to generate a new address on the same computer as the bitcoin client?
    – Nick ODell
    May 4, 2015 at 22:04
  • Have you tried adding rpcallow=127.0.0.1?
    – morsecoder
    May 4, 2015 at 22:22
  • One possibility is that your bitcoin.conf is not in the directory where Bitcoin Core expects it to be.
    – Nate Eldredge
    May 5, 2015 at 16:41
  • @StephenM347 127.0.0.1 is automatically whitelisted.
    – Nick ODell
    Jun 21, 2015 at 17:04

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The answer was to simply move bitcoin.conf in the correct directory, as described here: Where is the data folder for Bitcoin-Qt? Also, don't forget to set the correct file permissions as well; bitcoin.conf should be owner read-only!

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