PayPal Password Management - 2002 Installation Guide

PayPal Password Management Installation Guide

For Professional Use Only

Currently only available in English.

A usage Professional Uniquement

Disponible en Anglais uniquement pour l'instant.

Last Updated: April 2002

PayPal Password Management Installation Guide

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PayPal, Inc. and the authors assume no liability for errors or omissions, or for damages, resulting from the use of this Manual or the information contained in this Manual.

Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 2 Apache Basic Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Setting Up Basic Authentication with Apache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Apache Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 3 Configuring the PayPal Password Management Script . . .13

Configuring the PayPal Password Management Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Updating your PayPal Account Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

PayPal Password Management Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 4 Error Handling and Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Manual Modifications to .htpasswd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Recreating .htpasswd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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List of Tables

Table 4.1 Errors, Possible Causes, Potential Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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List of Tables

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Preface

This Document

This is the original release for Password Management Installation Guide, a document that describes installing and configuring the PayPal password management script for use by merchants who use PayPal’s subscription management.

Intended Audience

This document is written for users of PayPal subscription management feature.

Organization of This Document

Chapter 1, “Introduction,” gives some background information about this product.

Chapter 2, “Apache Basic Authentication,” gives some background information about Apache

web server basic authentication and how to configure it.

Chapter 3, “Configuring the PayPal Password Management Script,” details how to configure

PayPal’s Perl script for password management.

Chapter 4, “Error Handling and Reporting ,” details errors that might occur, their potential

causes, and possible solutions for them.

Notational Conventions

This document uses typefaces to identify the characteristics of text. These typefaces and the characteristics they imply are described below:

Typeface How Used

serif italics A document title.

A term being discussed or defined. For example: A file is a readable or writable stream of characters …

Boolean values (not keywords). For example: The function returns true if it encounters an error.

monospaced Pathnames or file names that appear in body text frames.

Code-related names that appear in body text frames. Such names are used for functions, callbacks, arguments, data structures, and fields.

For example: AbstractResponseType is the SOAP response type definition on which all PayPal API response methods are based.

Components of Internet protocol requests and responses, such as HTTPS and FORM variables.

For example: The PayPal system uses a method=POST request to return IPN status variables related to subscriptions, such as txn_type.

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