Running RETS-MD on Hosting Site

[briviere]

Hello

I'm trying to install RET-MD on my own hosting site but I keep getting the following error returned:

RETS M.D.
Error
There was an issue communicating with the RETS server:

HTTP (0)

thanks

Brian

[troydavisson]

This usually happens when 1) the login URL you were given includes a non-standard port (i.e. 6103) and 2) your hosting provider blocks outbound connections in that port.

You can verify this at http://retsmd.com/auth by seeing if that can connect from a different server.

[briviere]

This is what I received using http://retsmd.com/auth below. I guess it is
my host provider not allowing me to call out to port 8080?

Success! Login details as given are good!
Please note:

• Although the connection did succeed here, it's possible that firewall
  or account configuration settings would prevent the RETS server from
  allowing you to connect from a different server.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Troy Davisson [email protected]
wrote:

This usually happens when 1) the login URL you were given includes a
non-standard port (i.e. 6103) and 2) your hosting provider blocks outbound
connections in that port.

You can verify this at http://retsmd.com/auth by seeing if that can
connect from a different server.

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[troydavisson]

Very likely, yes. That page shows that the connection works fine on a server that doesn't have outbound connection restrictions, so once those restrictions are resolved on your server, you should get a good connection as well.

[briviere]

Well my hosting provider indicated that they have enabled outbound connection for me. If I use the http://retsmd.com/auth it returns the same message as before. Awardspace has indicated that the rets server is blocking them from calling it. If I use another cloud provider (Heroku) I do a wget and it returns me a 401 unauthorized which means it is accessing it.

retsmd.com works perfectly so I'm not sure if it is still there issue or my mls provider is actually blocking them.

thanks

Brian

[simmonspaul]

Thank you for your question and the response. This helped me as I could get my connectivity working from retsmd.com and thought I had a deployment issue when I could not get it running on my server. Non standard port in the provided URL needed to be opened by my host provider. They advised it would take minutes / hours for firewall rules to be in effect. I'm good to connect from my server now.