PAYPAL IPN port/URL

SteveOllis · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Sydney, Australia

Hi,

The server that I'm testing on is wholly inside our private network, which sits behind a firewall.

The public interface of the firewall is a real IP address, but the private interface of the firewall is 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 with traffic being NAT'd from our internal range.

Now, to trial IPN and PAYPAL, I've setup redir on a linux box that clear access to both private and public networks, and I've setup the PAYPAL notification URL to point the ipaddr:port of the redir port. What port should redir be pointing at for ppal_ipn.php to be called correctly from paypal? 5789?

Steve

alan · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 4435

You need to setup port forwarding in your firewall so that the traffic to your real IP (for port 5789) is being forwarded to FirstSpot Public Network Interface IP.
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SteveOllis · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Sydney, Australia

Perfect.. thanks..

SteveOllis · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Sydney, Australia

Hi,

is it valid to have a :port# in the Paypal Notification URL ?

ie http;//ext.ern.al.ipadd:5789/

I'm trying to get PAYPAL setup, and I'm not getting any joy.

Steve

alan · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 4435

Yes, your URL looks correct.

Most likely you have problem with your port forwarding setup. Note that if you don't have the paypal_txn.log file in the log subdirectory, that means PayPal traffic didn't get through at all.
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SteveOllis · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Sydney, Australia

Hi..

Found the issue. I could successfully telnet to the URL if I was inside the network.. but outside the network, the firewall was blocking..

Will test again after beating the firewall into shape..

Steve

SteveOllis · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 32 Location: Sydney, Australia

Hi..

FirstSpot is working FINE! Loving it..

Steve