Pre-Installation Steps
Before you install FairPay, please make sure you take the following steps.
- Make sure you have Perl's DBI module installed.
- Make sure you have at least one of the following Perl modules installed. if you wish to use fairpay_sql_populate:
- DBD::mysql (for MySQL)
- DBD::Pg (for PostgresSQL)
- DBD::ODBC (for MS-SQL)
- If you're using ODBC, make sure you have a DSN ready for use during installation.
Installation Steps
Installing FairPay is very straightforward, and involves a few simple
steps.
FairPay's main program, flipna, should reside in a directory
that has CGI execution enabled in your httpd configuration. The program's
working directory, which will be named fairpay should reside somewhere
outside of the web document space on your server for reasons of
security.
If you are installing on *nix, make sure you log in as or su to the
same user as should be running FairPay's component programs, prior to installation or any
(re)confguration. If you do not, you will need to manually adjust
permissions and ownerships accordingly.
To install FairPay, follow these steps:
- Copy the distribution tarball to a directory where you
have write permission.
- Untar the distribution tarball.
- Change directory into fairpay-install.
- Run perl ./install.pl to begin the installation
process.
- Answer the location questions. Only populate ODBC tables if you are using the ODBC driver.
- Adjust the ownership of the files and directories under
FairPay's directory tree if necessary.
- If you are not using the ODBC driver, but are using the MySQL or PostgresSQL servers, please use the complete_mysql.sql or complete_pgsql.sql files, respectively, to populate the server and database of your choice with the correct tables.
- Proceed to the section on configuration.
- After configuration is complete, configure the IPN section of your PayPal account profile to point to the URL for your copy of flipna
