Place paypal pro forms in secure subdomain

I am looking forward to scalability, and I am wondering whether it is possible to put just the paypal pro forms in a subdomain.

Basically, I would like to put the sign-up (paypal pro) forms at, for example http://secure.example.com, where secure.example.com is hosted on an SSL-protected, pci-compliant server, and put the main site, or http://example.com, on a more scalable, and faster host without SSL and without the need to worry about PCI. Is this kind of configuration possible with S2member?

Thank you for your inquiry.

Basically, I would like to put the sign-up (paypal pro) forms at, for example http://secure.example.com, where secure.example.com is hosted on an SSL-protected, pci-compliant server, and put the main site, or http://example.com, on a more scalable, and faster host without SSL and without the need to worry about PCI. Is this kind of configuration possible with S2member?

This is not possible by default, but if you’re okay with some custom code on your site, you could set up s2Member on your subdomain and your main site with the intention of sending s2Member information to its Remote Operations API on your main site.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Remote Operations API

With your Remote Operations, you can set up API Notifications on your site to change Users on your main site based on payments that occur on your subdomain site.

See: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

Thanks for this. I will see what I can do. So, basically I would just need a very barebones copy of my wordpress installation on the secure subdomain with just the secure checkout pages and the script to update the main installation with the username, name, email, subscription type, etc. Is that right? Is there a way to use the Paypal IPN to handle some of this?

So, basically I would just need a very barebones copy of my wordpress installation on the secure subdomain with just the secure checkout pages and the script to update the main installation with the username, name, email, subscription type, etc. Is that right? Is there a way to use the Paypal IPN to handle some of this?

Right, you’d need to set up s2Member in two places. I don’t think you could use PayPal IPN directly to go from API Notifications -> Remote Operations, but all of the information you’re getting is directly from the PayPal IPN processor. You’ll need to set up a script that formats this information and sends it to your main site using the information provided here, though:

Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler