{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js/issues/494","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js/issues/494/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js/issues/494/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ethereum/web3.js/issues/494/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/issues/494","id":177127736,"number":494,"title":"web3.personal.newAccount() Doesn't work","user":{"login":"AlexanderKozhevin","id":4464561,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4464561?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin","html_url":"https://github.com/AlexanderKozhevin","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AlexanderKozhevin/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-09-15T09:19:20Z","updated_at":"2016-09-15T12:19:40Z","closed_at":"2016-09-15T12:19:40Z","body":"I'm running a very simple code and it's giving me an error.\r\n```javascript\r\nvar Web3 = require('web3');\r\nvar web3 = new Web3();\r\nweb3.setProvider(new web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:8545'));\r\n\r\nvar newAccount = web3.personal.newAccount(\"yo\");\r\nconsole.log(newAccount)\r\n```\r\n\r\n\r\n```bash\r\n/home/info/open-ethereum-pool/node_modules/web3/lib/web3/requestmanager.js:61\r\n        throw errors.InvalidResponse(result);\r\n        ^\r\n\r\nError: The method personal_newAccount does not exist/is not available\r\n    at Object.InvalidResponse (/home/info/open-ethereum-pool/node_modules/web3/lib/web3/errors.js:35:16)\r\n    at RequestManager.send (/home/info/open-ethereum-pool/node_modules/web3/lib/web3/requestmanager.js:61:22)\r\n    at Personal.send [as newAccount] (/home/info/open-ethereum-pool/node_modules/web3/lib/web3/method.js:145:58)\r\n    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/info/open-ethereum-pool/test.js:7:26)\r\n    at Module._compile (module.js:556:32)\r\n    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:565:10)\r\n    at Module.load (module.js:473:32)\r\n    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:432:12)\r\n    at Function.Module._load (module.js:424:3)\r\n    at Module.runMain (module.js:590:10)\r\n\r\n```"}}
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