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More and Troubleshooting

API Key​

It's a good practice to use API key to limit the access to your full node's rest endpoints.

API Key Setup​

Please add the following to your user.conf by replacing the zeros with your own key (>= 32 characters).

alephium.api.api-key = "--- your own key with >= 32 characters"

Restart your full node to make this take effect.

API Key Generation​

On GNU/ Linux: cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 48 | head -n 1

Use API Key​

  1. Click on the Authorize button on the top right of your Swagger UI: full-node-api-key-auth0

  2. Fill in the value box with your key and click the authorize button: full-node-api-key-auth1

Now you could use Swagger UI as if there is no API key.

How to make the full node API publicly accessible ?​

  1. Set up your API key properly following the guide above.

  2. Add the following to your user.conf and restart your full node.

alephium.api.network-interface = "0.0.0.0"

How to access the Swagger UI of my full node on another computer in the same subnet ?​

  1. Add the following to your user.conf and restart your full node.
alephium.api.network-interface = "0.0.0.0"
  1. Change the host of Swagger UI to be the subnet IP of your full node.

Error "java.lang.AssertionError: assumption failed"​

This error often occurs due to connection loss during node synchronization and means that some of the files are corrupted. To fix the problem:

  1. Delete the folder .alephium rm .alephium

  2. Restart the node and wait for synchronization java -jar alephium-x.x.x.jar

Moving the Alephium data folder​

Many users prefer to keep the Alephium data folder on a different disk than the primary boot disk. To do so with the Alephium full node jar, you can use the ALEPHIUM_HOME environment variable:

  1. Stop the Alephium full node jar
  2. Move the Alephium data folder (normally at %userprofile%\.alephium for Windows or ~/.alephium for Linux and macOS) to the new location
  3. Add an environment variable ALEPHIUM_HOME to the system pointing to the new location. You can either do this at the system level or simply create a batch file that sets the variable prior to starting the Alephium jar.
  4. Restart the Alephium node

If using the docker full node, then simply change the mounted folder definitions in the docker file to point to the new home then restart.

Customize Logging​

There are several environment variables used for logging:

  • ALEPHIUM_LOG_LEVEL could change the console log level.
  • ALEPHIUM_ENABLE_DEBUG_LOGGING could enable debug logging.
  • ALEPHIUM_HOME could change the home folder of the full node, therefore the folder of logs

Below is an example with all of the possible logging options:

ALEPHIUM_HOM=<folder> ALEPHIUM_LOG_LEVEL=<DEBUG | INFO | WARN | ERROR> ALEPHIUM_ENABLE_DEBUG_LOGGING=<true | false> java -jar alephium-x.x.x.jar

It's also possible to override the logging configuration file of Alephium.

java -Dlogback.configurationFile=/path/to/config.xml alephium-x.x.x.jar