Plugin registers web hook to local (unreachable) staging server during testing

Hi Nachtigall,

as webhooks are required for proper functionality, you shouldn’t install paymill on a test environment not accessible from other server’s webhooks.

While WooCommerce and I recommend using a DEV/staging server for testing, this means a testing environment should be as far as possible similar to live environment. A local testing evironment does not fulfill this, if behavior differs to live server.

Kind regards,

Matthias

Hi Matthias,

thanks for the reply, not sure if I really understood it.

I do not install paymill on a test environment. What I have is a working live server. Whenever I do big upgrades of WordPress, WooCommerce Core and plugins (among which is Paymill), I first test this on a dev system. This is what’s recommended: https://docs.woothemes.com/document/testing-updates-using-a-staging-environment/

How can this still be done? Am I correct – from reading your reply – that Paymill has to be deinstalled from the test system as soon as the live system is dumped to the test system? If so, how can I make sure Paymill has not yet overridden/registered the working webhook with a wrong localhost URL?

So basically, to be really sure that paymill never touches the test system I would need to
1) deinstall paymill from live
2) dump live (without paymill) to testing
3) reinstall paymill to live

Is this correct?

I do not know what causes the overriding of the webhook in the first place. I did not take any action (except updating), it happened automatically. Wouldn’t it be easier in the first place if this automatic webhook overriding did not happen?

Issue is not pressing, have a nice weekend ??

Best regards,
Jens

Hi Jens,

Are you using in your staging system the live or the test keys from PAYMILL? In case you are using the live ones then it will also overwrite the destination for the live Webhooks with the staging url once you save the keys.
Might be important as well to keep this in mind, so that it will not generate unwanted side effects in your live system.
It is not required to stop or deinstall PAYMILL on the live system, you only have to make sure that you use the proper (test)keys for the staging system.

Hope this helps.
Let us know if anything else is required.

Have a great day.

Lars

Hi Lars,

Are you using in your staging system the live or the test keys
from PAYMILL?

Yes, sure. How else am I supposed to dump live to testing? That’s what the whole question is about in my last comment, you could just replace the term “deinstall paymill” with “remove live keys from live server” and have the same problem still.

In case you are using the live ones then it will also overwrite the destination for the live Webhooks with the staging url once you save the keys. Might be important as well to keep this in mind, so that it will not generate unwanted side effects in your live system.

As pointed out: This is exactly what happens.

It is not required to stop or deinstall PAYMILL on the live system, you only have to make sure that you use the proper (test)keys for the staging system.

So I do not have to deinstall paymill on the live system, but remove the live keys from there before dumping to a test system? See last comment. This is (almost) equally bad.

Have a nice day, too ??

Hi Jens,

Thanks for pointing this out.
For testing you can use the PAYMILL test keys and test credit card data. Then it will not interfere with the live system.
In your case indeed you have to rewrite the keys to the live Plugin once testing is done, so that the keys and Webhooks are being set properly.

Matthias, do you have a workaround for the scenario that Jens shows up?

Best regards,

Lars

I think I found a solution: Immediately after importing the mysql live dump to testing I could change the live key strings to the test keys (mysql update).

I just need to know where these are store in MySql? (table, “row”/”id”). Can you let me know? I could not find it myself.

The settings are saved in table wp_options, fields:

paymill_general_settings
paymill_webhook_id

Kind regards,

Matthias