How to setup a Q Fullnode

Setup your Server

You must prepare your server / machine to begin. One possibility is to use a local machine, alternatively you can use a cloud instance on AWS for example. There is a good external tutorial on how to get started with Ethereum on AWS. You can use this tutorial as a basic reference.

Get basic Configuration

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/q-dev/mainnet-public-tools

and go to the /fullnode directory

$ cd mainnet-public-tools/fullnode

This directory contains the docker-compose file for quick launching of the full node with preconfigurations on rpc, blockchain explorer, .env file for ports configuration and genesis.json that contains the genesis block config of Q Mainnet.

Configure Ports

Copy the file .env.example to .env and configure to your needs.

$ cp .env.example .env

Choose ports (or leave default values) for node rpc api and blockchain explorer by editing the .env file.

EXT_PORT=<rpc port>
EXPLORER_PORT=<blockchain explorer port>

Launch Node

Launch the node by executing the following command from /fullnode directory:

$ docker-compose up -d

Verify your Installation

After node is launched, it starts syncing with network.

The setup includes a local blockchain explorer. You can browse blocks, transactions and accounts via your browser by opening the url http://localhost:PORT where PORT is the number you chose above for EXPLORER_PORT, e.g. http://localhost:8080

You can check your nodes real-time logs with the following command:

$ docker-compose logs -f --tail "100"

Find additional peers

In case your client can't connect with the default configuration, we recommend that you add an additional flag referring to one of our additional peers ($BOOTNODE1_ADDR, $BOOTNODE2_ADDRor $BOOTNODE3_ADDR) within docker-compose.yaml file:

fullnode:
  image: $QCLIENT_IMAGE
  entrypoint: ["geth", "--bootnodes=$BOOTNODE_ADDR", "--datadir=/data", ...]