Port 1129 Question

[slegendre]

Hello. Just a general question.

I've installed the newest version of Zen Cart. All went great. I've setup my merchant account/payment gateway with First Data. Now i'm trying to hook up the gateway to Zen cart with some issues.

During my testing, i'm running into the issue when processing a payment. I receive the error message:

We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are presently unable to contact the Credit Card company for authorization. Please contact the Store Owner for payment alternatives.

I checked the CURLtest.php file and everything is setup. When I go to /extras/curltest.php?linkpoint=1 I receive the following error:

7 couldn't connect to host

Array
(
[url] => "https://secure.linkpt.net:1129/LSGSXML"
[http_code] => 0
[header_size] => 0
[request_size] => 0
[filetime] => -1
[ssl_verify_result] => 0
[redirect_count] => 0
[total_time] => 0
[namelookup_time] => 0.065368
[connect_time] => 0
[pretransfer_time] => 0
[size_upload] => 0
[size_download] => 0
[speed_download] => 0
[speed_upload] => 0
[download_content_length] => 0
[upload_content_length] => 0
[starttransfer_time] => 0
[redirect_time] => 0
)



EOF

My hosting account is with Godaddy and its the shared economy account. Port 1129 is NOT open. So I believe this is my issue. Figured i'd write in to get some feedback really quick.

Godaddy says I need to upgrade to a dedicated hosting plan (pretty expensive). Anyone have any suggestions?

[Kim]

Best advice? Change hosts.

[DrByte]

Kim's right.

GD won't open port 1129 if you're on their regular hosting plan. And their other hosting options are way too costly for what they offer.
GD is great for low-cost domain registrations, but frankly that's the ONLY business they belong in. Everything else they do related to websites/hosting/etc is JUST a money-grab. There's much proof of that in many other discussions on this and other website forums.

Your BEST choice is to choose a real hosting company. Here are several which are known to work well with Zen Cart: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...es&pages_id=10

[slegendre]

Yeah I thought that would be the best solution. I'm actually looking at Thinkhost. The plans are priced pretty well. I just put a support ticket in with them to see if they can support what I need and open port 1129. I'll take a look at these other hosting plans as well.

Thanks!

[slegendre]

I've been shopping around. Has anyone used or is using hostmonster.com? They seem to have the best bang for the buck and fully support Zen Cart. Anyone have any feedback?

[kirei]

I'm currently using hostmonster after switching from GoDaddy. They seem to be alright so far, everything with smooth and their support is quick. Every ticket I've entered has been answered within 2 hours.

My debate was between them and Hosting24.

[Kim]

Please make any personal recommendations via PM. Thanks.