[SOLVED] .htaccess blocking paypal IPN notifications

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Post by Matty » Sun Sep 25, 2011 2:16 pm

I have a 'development' site which I would like to password protect using the following htaccess file...

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AuthUserFile /usr/home/username/www/htdocs/storename/.htpasswd 
AuthName "ADMIN ONLY" 
AuthType Basic
require user myusername
Only problem is this causes paypal orders to come up as 'abandoned orders' in opencart. I assume this is due to paypal IPN notifications being blocked.

Is there any way I can password protect my site but allow paypal IPN's to gain access?

Thanks
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Re: .htaccess blocking paypal IPN notifications

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Post by uksitebuilder » Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:12 pm

You would have to edit the callback URL that is sent to paypal to include the HTP Auth credentials

Something like:

http://useranme:password@www.yourstore.com

I believe this should work
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[SOLVED] Re: .htaccess blocking paypal IPN notifications

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Post by Matty » Sun Sep 25, 2011 8:17 pm

Thanks Simon,

I tried your suggestion but it didn't work.

Then I made following changes to the htaccess file and it did the trick!

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AuthUserFile /usr/home/username/www/htdocs/storename/.htpasswd 
AuthName "ADMIN ONLY" 
AuthType Basic
<limit GET>
satisfy any
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 66.135.205.13
require user myusername
</limit>
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