Dumb Block Explorer

A trivial block explorer written in a single PHP file.

Demo

https://bitcointools.jonasschnelli.ch/explorer/

Features

• Works wirth Bitcoin Core with enabled REST interface (-rest)
• Works with or without txindex
• Works with pruning
• Does UTXO lookups

Install

• Place the index.php script into a php enabled http docs directory
• Run Bitcoin Core with rest and txindex (optional) -txindex -rest
• Edit the index.php config section

Nice links

Use mod_rewrite use a propper URL scheme (/block/), etc. Apache users can place a .htaccess file into the same folder as the PHP script.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^testnet$ index.php?testnet=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^testnet/$ index.php?testnet=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^testnet/tx/([a-fA-F0-9]*)$ index.php?testnet=1&tx=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^testnet/tx/([a-fA-F0-9]*)/n/([a-fA-F0-9]*)$ index.php?testnet=1&tx=$1&n=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^testnet/block/([a-fA-F0-9]*)$ index.php?testnet=1&block=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tx/([a-fA-F0-9]*)$ index.php?tx=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tx/([a-fA-F0-9]*)/n/([0-9]*)$ index.php?tx=$1&n=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^block/([a-fA-F0-9]*)$ index.php?block=$1 [L,QSA]