# Trouble trying to connect to my own connector **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Created:** [April 5, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475 "2019-04-05T15:41:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![italo.nascimento](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/italo.nascimento/32/232_2.png) [@italo.nascimento](https://forum.interledger.org/u/italo.nascimento)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/1 "2019-04-05T15:41:53Z")
Hi everyone. I’ve just started to study about Interledger and am still struggling with some basics. Hope someone here can help! I’ve managed to get a connector up and running by following Adrian’s tutorial [Running your own ILP connector](https://medium.com/interledger-blog/running-your-own-ilp-connector-c296a6dcf39a), but I’m facing issues when I try to connect with it from a moneyd instance running on my machine. The local moneyd instance gets to comunicate with the remote connector, but is not abble to create a channel due to an `undefined` destination: ```auto info creating outgoing channel. from=r3EhvL6a9ADrtrwd5XMQZnnDmroR9urvw5 to=undefined amount=10 app error [ValidationError(instance.paymentChannelCreate requires property "destination")] ``` Appearently there’s something wrong in the connector configs, as I was abble to connect to a different connector (`testnet.ilpnetwork.dev`) using similar moneyd config. What am I missing? Here is my current config: ```auto DEBUG: 'ilp*,connector*', CONNECTOR_ENV: 'production', CONNECTOR_ADMIN_API: true, CONNECTOR_ADMIN_API_PORT: 7700, CONNECTOR_ILP_ADDRESS: 'g.swipetech', CONNECTOR_BACKEND: 'one-to-one', CONNECTOR_SPREAD: '0', CONNECTOR_STORE: 'ilp-store-redis', CONNECTOR_STORE_CONFIG: '{ "prefix": "connector", "port": 6379 }', CONNECTOR_ACCOUNTS: '{ "peer1": { "relation": "peer", "plugin": "ilp-plugin-xrp-paychan", "assetCode": "XRP", "assetScale": 9, "balance": { "maximum": "1000000000", "settleThreshold": "-5000000000", "settleTo": "0" }, "options": { "listener": { "port": 7444, "secret": "" }, "rippledServer": "wss://s.altnet.rippletest.net:51233", "address": "r99HvXMMCYf8KApw14a71zJLMHkKZhfD5V", "secret": "" } }, "ilsp": { "relation": "child", "plugin": "ilp-plugin-xrp-asym-server", "assetCode": "XRP", "assetScale": 6, "options": { "port": 7443, "xrpServer": "wss://s.altnet.rippletest.net:51233", "address": "r99HvXMMCYf8KApw14a71zJLMHkKZhfD5V", "secret": "snxeX5985xvuuK28nGBFGReeuHa8c" } } }' ``` ---
**Author:** ![wek120](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b77776/32.png) [@wek120](https://forum.interledger.org/u/wek120)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/2 "2019-04-05T23:39:50Z")
John, Just a bit more context to my earlier message. Can you believe this stuff??? -Whit ---
**Author:** ![austin\_king](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/austin_king/32/145_2.png) [@austin\_king](https://forum.interledger.org/u/austin_king)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/3 "2019-04-06T18:18:39Z")
Hi Italo, Glad to hear that you’re playing around with deploying a connector. How are you running moneyd to connect? It looks like the last time that the moneyd connector\_list was updated was 18 days ago so I think that by default moneyd is trying to connect to another connector in the network and not your own. Are you editing the ~/.moneyd.test.json to connect to your host? ---
**Author:** ![italo.nascimento](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/italo.nascimento/32/232_2.png) [@italo.nascimento](https://forum.interledger.org/u/italo.nascimento)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/4 "2019-04-08T13:23:17Z")
Hi Austin! Yeah, I have edited my moneyd.test.json, and I’m successfully comunicating with the connector. I can verify that in it’s logs. I’m guessing there’s something wrong in the connector’s side, as I was able to connect to the testnet with a similar moneyd config. I’ve just changed the server’s btp address. ---
**Author:** ![austin\_king](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/austin_king/32/145_2.png) [@austin\_king](https://forum.interledger.org/u/austin_king)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/5 "2019-04-09T20:16:52Z")
Hi Italo, if you are able to establish communication with your connector but are failing to send payments then I would check the plugin config on your connector. It looks like you might be missing a few fields within options of your “ilsp” account. Specifically, try adding assetScale within options as well. Also, you should be using an assetScale of 9 instead of 6. If that doesn’t change anything I would also make sure that moneyd is running on the testnet because it looks like your connector plugin XRP address is a testnet address. Let me know if you’re still having issues after this. ---
**Author:** ![italo.nascimento](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/italo.nascimento/32/232_2.png) [@italo.nascimento](https://forum.interledger.org/u/italo.nascimento)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/6 "2019-04-10T20:52:54Z")
Hey Austin, My options looks like this right now: ```auto options: { listener: { port: 8000, secret: "" }, assetScale: 9, rippledServer: "wss://s.altnet.rippletest.net:51233", address: "", secret: "", peerAddress: "", } ``` Though I’m still getting the same error. The `ilp-plugin-xrp-asym-client` is unable to open a payment channel because it’s getting an undefined `peerAddress`: ```auto error [ValidationError(instance.paymentChannelCreate requires property "destination")] ``` ---
**Author:** ![austin\_king](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/austin_king/32/145_2.png) [@austin\_king](https://forum.interledger.org/u/austin_king)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/7 "2019-04-10T22:01:34Z")
Hi Italo, peerAddress is not a valid option for ilp-plugin-xrp-asym-server. The asym-server allows many clients to connect, so there is no need to specify a single peer address. ---
**Author:** ![italo.nascimento](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/italo.nascimento/32/232_2.png) [@italo.nascimento](https://forum.interledger.org/u/italo.nascimento)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/8 "2019-04-11T14:55:10Z")
Ok, that makes sense! But why would moneyd try to open a payment channel with `undefined` destination? Is it getting a malformed response from the connector? ---
**Author:** ![austin\_king](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/austin_king/32/145_2.png) [@austin\_king](https://forum.interledger.org/u/austin_king)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/trouble-trying-to-connect-to-my-own-connector/475/9 "2019-04-15T17:20:58Z")
That is likely an indication that one of the XRP addresses is misconfigured, either on the connector end or the moneyd end.