如何在mailchimp中向我的本地magento网站添加webhook而不公开公开URL（出于SEO原因）？

Question

I am using the magemonkey extension from Ebizmart and when i save my config in the admin i get the following error:

Could not add Webhook "http://example.com/monkey/webhook/index/wkey//" for list "Test Mailing List", error code 508, We couldn't connect to the specified the URL. Please double check and try again.

I did some digging and arrived at the conclusion (duh) that mailchimp cannot see my local environment so it's unable to add the webhook. Is it possible for me to configure this locally for testing purposes or do I have to wait until the site is live (sounds pretty strange to me)?

UPDATE: I reached out to Mailchimp and got the following response. Seems like they won't add a host entry to recognize my test environment. The only way to accomplish this would be to use a handshake key.

Thanks for reaching out to MailChimp support. I can certainly understand the concern here and will be happy to help.

Unfortunately, any webhooks being used must be publically available and there would not be a way to add a host entry in MailChimp so that the URL can be used.

If your testing environement allows for HandShake keys, one options might be to add that on to the url: (can't add more than 2 links)

At MailChimp we definitely appreciate testing and encourage it with our users and I will be sure to pass this feedback along to our developers so that testing in closed environments might be a bit easier. I also wanted to provide a link to our feedback form in case you wanted to leave some feedback for our developers directly: (can't add more than 2 links)

If you have any additional questions or concerns, feel free to reach back out and we will be happy to help.

Thank you,

Mikey

Answer 1

Use https://ngrok.com/, available for all platforms.

It allows you to tunnel requests to your local dev machine. It's very easy to use, just download and run:

ngrok http 80

Then it'll show you the forwarding URL (where xxx is randomly generated):

Forwarding                    https://xxxxxxxx.ngrok.io -> localhost:80

Use https://xxxxxxxx.ngrok.io as the begining of your webhook callback URL.

Once it's running, a web interface is available at http://127.0.0.1:4040 that shows metrics and let's you replay requests.