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Merge pull request #1691 from bigchaindb/docs/1653/fix-old-http-response-example

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Replaced old response to Root URL with a description of what to expect
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docs/server/source/dev-and-test/setup-run-node.md
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@ -147,22 +147,16 @@ docker-compose run --rm bdb py.test -v --database-backend=mongodb
### Accessing the HTTP API
A quick check to make sure that the BigchainDB server API is operational:
You can do quick check to make sure that the BigchainDB server API is operational:
```bash
curl $(docker-compose port bdb 9984)
```
should give you something like:
The result should be a JSON object (inside braces like { })
containing the name of the software ("BigchainDB"),
the version of BigchainDB, the node's public key, and other information.
```bash
{
"keyring": [],
"public_key": "Brx8g4DdtEhccsENzNNV6yvQHR8s9ebhKyXPFkWUXh5e",
"software": "BigchainDB",
"version": "0.6.0"
}
```
How does the above curl command work? Inside the Docker container, BigchainDB
exposes the HTTP API on port `9984`. First we get the public port where that
port is bound: