etherwallet-3.4.1/ on private chain setup - having 404 error

Question

I am following the MyEtherWallet: Use Your Own Server Guide to use MyEtherWallet on my private ethereum network. I am doing this setup on my node, where my ethereum node runs.

I have done first 4 steps.

In response.js file: I have set host as:

host: '127.0.0.1'

In runLocalServer.js file: I have set app.use as:

app.use(vhost('127.0.0.1', require('./index.js').app));

Since port 80 is occupied, I have changed port number 80 to my free port number as 8000;

• httpServer.listen(80); in runLocalServer.js.

• httpServer.listen(80); in runServer.js

As recommended on Step-2 I run:

[~]$ node runLocalServer.js
//waits

But on Step-3, when I navigate to http://localhost/api.mew inside my node, I do have 404 or timeout errors. I was not able to end up on a empty/white page.

I was not able to figure out how to overcome this problem or where I am doing something wrong/missing. Any valuable guidance will be appreciated.

Thank you for your valuable time and help.

Answer 1

As you changed port from 80 to 8000, you need to navigate to http://localhost:8000/api.mew

Also later when changing SERVERURL you should put the same http://localhost:8000/api.mew

Please note that currently Use Your Own Server Guide does not correspond with recent release (3.4.2):

• you need to change addresses in nodeIP.json, not response.js
• when changing etherwallet-master.js it is easier to search for rpc.myetherwallet.com to get the line with SERVERURL

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You can serve both api.mew and index.html from single port. Just edit json_relay_node/index.js and add app.use(express.static('../dist'));:

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
    extended: true
}));
app.use(express.static('../dist'));
app.get('/api.mew', function(req, res) {
    wait.launchFiber(handleRequest, req, res);
});
app.post('/api.mew', function(req, res) {
    wait.launchFiber(handleRequest, req, res);
});