user1434: I got a block and asked for the data in its first transaction and that generated an error.  The following is from the console tab in the Debug window:
10:52:52 getblock 000000000030bfd22ed67169b6bbf9ba994618fa9840642d395b56134f15176c

10:52:52
{
  "hash": "000000000030bfd22ed67169b6bbf9ba994618fa9840642d395b56134f15176c",
  "confirmations": 332460,
  "size": 216,
  "height": 81626,
  "version": 1,
  "merkleroot": "1ebda57ace225010d23d72619dbda5ee250dc4536f7c3428a9a419f06438ca54",
  "tx": [
    "1ebda57ace225010d23d72619dbda5ee250dc4536f7c3428a9a419f06438ca54"
  ],
  "time": 1285297753,
  "mediantime": 1285295165,
  "nonce": 71992579,
  "bits": "1b4766ed",
  "difficulty": 917.8307413015116,
  "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000650ba70ddba016",
  "previousblockhash": "00000000001272fc0e0cfa9d08d854cfac681a939dccc21aecd9f7074fb0df2b",
  "nextblockhash": "00000000001bd5ac7329097b9888628c33c7adeecfc6e46f74fbab006f4c2127"
}

10:53:42 getrawtransaction 1ebda57ace225010d23d72619dbda5ee250dc4536f7c3428a9a419f06438ca54

10:53:42 No information available about transaction (code -5)

This happens in Bitcoin Classic and in Bitcoin Core.  I don't have a bitcoin.conf file in the folder where bitcoin-qt.exe lives, but I do have one where the chainstate and blocks folders are located.  It has five lines in it and each one starts with "addnode".

user208: You need the transaction index enabled of you want to use getrawtransaction on arbitrary transactions. By default, only transactions that have unspent outputs are available.
Run bitcoind with -txindex or put txindex=1 in bitcoin.conf. You'll need to reindex.

1434: <p>I got a block and asked for the data in its first transaction and that generated an error.  The following is from the console tab in the Debug window:</p>

<pre><code>10:52:52 getblock 000000000030bfd22ed67169b6bbf9ba994618fa9840642d395b56134f15176c

10:52:52
{
  "hash": "000000000030bfd22ed67169b6bbf9ba994618fa9840642d395b56134f15176c",
  "confirmations": 332460,
  "size": 216,
  "height": 81626,
  "version": 1,
  "merkleroot": "1ebda57ace225010d23d72619dbda5ee250dc4536f7c3428a9a419f06438ca54",
  "tx": [
    "1ebda57ace225010d23d72619dbda5ee250dc4536f7c3428a9a419f06438ca54"
  ],
  "time": 1285297753,
  "mediantime": 1285295165,
  "nonce": 71992579,
  "bits": "1b4766ed",
  "difficulty": 917.8307413015116,
  "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000650ba70ddba016",
  "previousblockhash": "00000000001272fc0e0cfa9d08d854cfac681a939dccc21aecd9f7074fb0df2b",
  "nextblockhash": "00000000001bd5ac7329097b9888628c33c7adeecfc6e46f74fbab006f4c2127"
}

10:53:42 getrawtransaction 1ebda57ace225010d23d72619dbda5ee250dc4536f7c3428a9a419f06438ca54

10:53:42 No information available about transaction (code -5)
</code></pre>

<p>This happens in Bitcoin Classic and in Bitcoin Core.  I don't have a bitcoin.conf file in the folder where bitcoin-qt.exe lives, but I do have one where the chainstate and blocks folders are located.  It has five lines in it and each one starts with "addnode".</p>
 208: <p>You need the transaction index enabled of you want to use <code>getrawtransaction</code> on arbitrary transactions. By default, only transactions that have unspent outputs are available.</p>

<p>Run bitcoind with <code>-txindex</code> or put <code>txindex=1</code> in bitcoin.conf. You'll need to reindex.</p>
