PayPal sandbox notifications

[SBB]

Hi

Have set up a test installation to try PayPal shopping cart using PayPal sandbox. When a purchase is made the details appear in the log on the 'Credit Card' configuration page but the 'Status' remains blank and on checking a txn.log is not created. Testing from an external machine shows port 5789 to be listening.

I have had this working OK in the past, any ideas where I could be going wrong this time?

Thanks
Lubin

[alan]

PayPal sandbox sometimes has a habit of only working on port 80. Please try:

1) copy the 2 files ppal_ipn.php and transaction.php from FirstSpot\local to FirstSpot\firstspotdemo directory

2) change your "Publicly accessible URL to receive transaction update from PayPal" to http://your_public_ip
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[SBB]

Hi

No luck with that. Would I need to amend the value of 'Transaction update module listening port' to 80 ?

Thanks

[alan]

No.

Did you uncomment ppal_ipn.php code so that you are now using sandbox? Also, please check out http://patronsoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2058
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[SBB]

Hi

All looks OK to me, can you confirm please

ppal_ipn.php
==========
// $url="www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";
// uncomment below for sandbox testing. Need https for sandbox. If using https, please put '/' at the end of the url
$url="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr/";
==========


paypal_submit.php
==========
// 20080211 - Use the lower one for test site
// $url="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";
$url="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";
==========

Thanks again

[alan]

If you cannot find txn.log, most likely your firewall/router Port Forwarding is not setup correctly or the "Publicly accessible URL to receive transaction update from PayPal" under Configuration Manager -> Credit Card is incorrect.
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[SBB]

Hi

Had to leave this for a while but now back on it and got it working OK

Many thanks for the help