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Server connection

Here is how to connect to Minka Ledger server

An entire Minka Ledger lives on the Minka Server. And to do anything with it, we first need to connect to it.

To connect to a LIVE production server you need to contact Minka's sales team. You can do it through this link and they will respond to you ASAP.

However, you can create the ledger yourself on the TEST server and in this tutorial you will see how to connect to it.

All the steps are exactly the same both on TEST and LIVE server. The only difference is in the server URL link. (and also, the LIVE server requires permissions that you currently don't have)

Connect to a server

This tutorial will use command line interface (CLI) that you can run in your terminal.

The steps below assume you have installed npm and Node.js (v20 or newer) on your computer, as well as Minka CLI.

$ minka server connect
? Server URL: https://ldg-stg.one
 
✅ Connected to server dev (https://ldg-stg.stg/api/v2)
 
No active ledger is selected, to select one, please use:
 > minka ledger select

🎉 Congratulations! You are now connected to a test server.

Console output instructs you to select your ledger. However, we still haven't created one.

So before we create anything, "we" need to exist.

And in one of our upcoming tutorials we will cover user creation. But first, let's understand how keys and signatures work.

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