Paypal IPN : notify_url not called

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user700119 picture user700119 · Aug 27, 2012 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

I'm testing a simple paypal paying script whisch works fine except that it's not calling my notify_url and I don't understand why. The url is reachable and even the sandbox IPN testing gives a positive result. Even stranger, on the same domain I have an other script that is working briliantly. Code is not identical, but it's using the same method.

This is the html of the form used to send paymento to Paypal:

form id="ppcheckout" action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" name="pp">
  <input type="hidden" value="_xclick" name="cmd">
  <input id="business" type="hidden" value="[email protected]" name="business">
  <input id="currency_code" type="hidden" value="EUR" name="currency_code">
  <input type="hidden" value="http://www.mydomain.com/dir/ipn.php" name="notify_url">
  <input id="return" type="hidden" value="http://www.mydomain.com/dir/" name="return">
  <input id="cancel_return" type="hidden" value="http://www.mydomain.com/dir/" name="cancel_return">
  <input type="hidden" value="1" name="amount">
  <input type="hidden" value="Order from mysite" name="item_name">
  <input type="hidden" value="1" name="invoice">
</form>

Can't realy figure out what's wrong or missing. Does someone have an idea?

Thanks Bye

Answer

Knights picture Knights · Dec 24, 2012

I hope you are not testing paypal on LOCALHOST. That wont work, you need to test it online, in a web server, you can code using localhost but have to upload it to the SERVER so as to test it completely.

Here is a link that might help in configuring paypal - How to Set Up PayPal Integration with PHP & MySQL

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