xrpl-dev-portal/content/concepts/the-rippled-server/stand-alone-mode.md

Stand-Alone Mode

You can run rippled in stand-alone mode without a consensus of trusted servers. In stand-alone mode, rippled does not communicate with any other servers in the XRP Ledger peer-to-peer network, but you can do most of the same actions on your local server only. Stand-alone provides a method for testing rippled behavior without being tied to the live network. For example, you can test the effects of Amendments before those Amendments have gone into effect across the decentralized network.

When you run rippled in stand-alone mode, you have to tell it what ledger version to start from:

• Create a new genesis ledger from scratch.
• Load an existing ledger version from disk.

Caution: In stand-alone mode, you must manually advance the ledger.

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