The `--skip-default-conf-files` flag is often desired but people may miss it because it's not in the doc, so this documents it.
Further, to avoid problems with people missing flags this adds a recommendation to run `electrs --help` so if we ever forget to update the doc people will learn about the new arguments anyway.
Following #962.
People seeing Nginx config may falsely assume electrs uses HTTP but it's not the case.
Putting heads up about this may avoid future confusion.
Closes#813
Removing/renaming unsupported switches was not called out explicitly and it's possible that someone is using a different bitcoind address, not just port.
Closes#520
With new `rocksdb` it's no longer necessary to disable features when dynamically linking.
Thus this change removes instructions to add `--no-default-features`.
However there's now a new feature called `metrics` which enables Prometheus.
This change also documents this and explains how to turn it off.
Closes#517
This warns users that they shouldn't touch `db_dir` internals except for
deleting the old `mainnet` database. It explains in details how to do
upgrade and deleting properly, calls it out in release notes and fixes
small style mistake in nearby heading.
It can be thought of as more explicit/detailed version of
8b8ebea0018d3e9a97ce965845b1914df4b4d8a4 or a textual alternative to
PR #513.
Current `usage.md` contains only one example in `RPC examples` which uses `echo` and `netcat`. The PR adds new and corresponding example in `Python` which can speed up the initial use of the `electrs` for people who try to use the project for the first time.
This adds more informtion about cookie deprecation, especially
motivation, so the users won't be frustrated because of unexplained
change. It also removes a warning that's no longer applicable.
This adds `auth` option and deprecates `cookie` which has a confusing
name. It's effectively renaming but we pretend it is not to avoid people
blindly changing the name without second thought.
Closes#349 (a new tracking issue will be created)
