I am applying for an account at godatafeed.com, and they say that my site does not have xml-rpc enabled. I checked all settings but I cant find anything regarding this.
I checked some websites and they say to try to browse to this urls"
http://www.theprinterdepo.com/index.php/api/xmlrpc/ http://www.theprinterdepo.com/index.php/api/?wsdl
the 2nd one works, the first one doesnt show anything.
how can I enable this service?
The first one is likely not working because somebody (perhaps yourself) has applied the workaround fix to the xmlrpc security vulnerability.
You can find more information on the vulnerability here.
Here are the steps I followed to make it work:
Install Magento 1.1 (minimum)
In the admin, under System -> Web Services, add one user, add one role (specify the access level for the role, or check “All"), and assign the user to the role
Using a XML RPC client (a good one for Mac OS X: http://ditchnet.org/xmlrpc/), set the endpoint URL to http://yourstore/magento/api/xmlrpc/
First call the method “login”, with 2 parameters: the user and the key (you just created them at step 2.). Refer to the screenshot in attachement.
The request looks like this:
<methodCall>
<methodName>
login
</methodName>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<string>
test
</string>
</value>
</param>
<param>
<value>
<string>
123456
</string>
</value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>
The respons looks like this (it contains your session id):
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<string>
a10915086ca235bcf71f66cfe70bd198
</string>
</value>
</param>
</params>
</methodResponse>
Using the session id you are now able to call any other method. For example catalog_category.tree. So you just always call the method “call” and pass the 2 parameters: session id, method name (refer to screenshots in attachement). You may have other parameters to pass depending on the target method.
See the below URL:-
I played around with this a while back, and ended up turning it off due to requirements changing, but...
To answer your question about where it is in the admin interface, go to System->Web Services->Users, and add a user as godatafeed.com requires, this will include user name, first name, last name, email, api key, api key confirmation, and whether this account is active.
You may need to create a specific role for that user as well... System->Web Services->Roles, this will give the user assigned to the role, specific permissions in the subsystems of Magento as desired/needed.
If you need additional, info you can look at the magentocommerce forums, I found this one when I was implementing it previously. The info is old, but is updated and useful as you go through the thread: http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/11773/
The URLs you have appear to be correct, but if the user doesn't exist, it won't let anything happen. Double check your URLs with the info in the forum as well, they have samples to test the API.
From comment below, explanation of API v1 and v2 with php examples of both: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/0_-_module_development_in_magento/introduction
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