From ee73348658f43f7ec203bb7257b4154193aa0b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Schmideg Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:04:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Add default windows IPC path (#20722) Co-authored-by: Felix Lange --- docs/_rpc/server.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/_rpc/server.md b/docs/_rpc/server.md index 064d742e47..129ede012c 100644 --- a/docs/_rpc/server.md +++ b/docs/_rpc/server.md @@ -73,11 +73,15 @@ As with `--rpccorsdomain`, using `--wsorigins '*'` allows access from any origin JSON-RPC APIs are also provided on a UNIX domain socket. This server is enabled by default and has access to all JSON-RPC namespaces. -The listening socket is placed into the data directory by default. On Linux, the -default location of the geth socket is +The listening socket is placed into the data directory by default. On Linux and macOS, +the default location of the geth socket is ~/.ethereum/geth.ipc +On Windows, IPC is provided via named pipes. The default location of the geth pipe is: + + \\.\pipe\geth.ipc + You can configure the location of the socket using the `--ipcpath` flag. IPC can be disabled using the `--ipcdisable` flag.