[angemon]

Originally Posted by HM666

Login go to Merchant Services > Process Orders > Instant Payment Notification click the link below that heading. Mine is labeled "Learn More" Then you will set your IPN to be your https url and save there. I "think" that is the only place you change it, its been quite awhile since I've played in there.

EDIT: just saw your edited post yeah you can try to change it there as well. But that is the URL that PayPal will return you to after a payment has been made. So in effect what that does is if you have a custom page that says thanks for the donation/payment etc then you use that page as the return URL. It really should have no bearing on your usergroups having problems.

Is it this one , I've just put my website link (it wasn't there) , are you sure that will solve the issue!?
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EDIT: after testing , still not working , usergroup doesn't change , even that I've received the money

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Originally Posted by HM666

Login go to Merchant Services > Process Orders > Instant Payment Notification click the link below that heading. Mine is labeled "Learn More" Then you will set your IPN to be your https url and save there. I "think" that is the only place you change it, its been quite awhile since I've played in there.

EDIT: just saw your edited post yeah you can try to change it there as well. But that is the URL that PayPal will return you to after a payment has been made. So in effect what that does is if you have a custom page that says thanks for the donation/payment etc then you use that page as the return URL. It really should have no bearing on your usergroups having problems.

EDIT: after testing , still not working , usergroup doesn't change , even that I've received the money

[kh99]

Wouldn't the url be https://removed.com/payment_gateway.php?method=paypal ?

ETA: actually, from the developers docs:

Note: The IPN message will always be sent to your notification URL unless receiving IPNs have been disabled. Even though you have not enabled receiving IPN messages in your Profile or you have reset your preference by turning off IPN messages, PayPal still sends IPN messages to the notification URL you specify for a specific payment. IPN messages not sent because you disabled the preference in your Profile will appear in the IPN history when you enable receiving IPNs. After they appear in the history, you can choose whether or not to resend them.

So, since the vb code includes the URL for each specific payment, I would think you'd want to leave that setting at "Do Not Receive IPN Messages". Are you able to look in the IPN history they mention?

I don't know anything about cloudflare, but is it possible to temporarily turn it off to see if that makes any difference?

[ozzy47]

Check out, your server's access logs and see if it is actually trying to access your site, should look something like this, 123.0.21.3 - - [28/Aug/2012:21:29:57 +0100] "POST /payment_gateway.php HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "-", and then check your sites error log and see if you see something like this, [Tue Aug 28 21:29:57 2012] [error] [client 123.0.21.3] client denied by server configuration:

[angemon]

Originally Posted by kh99

Wouldn't the url be https://removed.com/payment_gateway.php?method=paypal ?

ETA: actually, from the developers docs:


So, since the vb code includes the URL for each specific payment, I would think you'd want to leave that setting at "Do Not Receive IPN Messages". Are you able to look in the IPN history they mention?

I don't know anything about cloudflare, but is it possible to temporarily turn it off to see if that makes any difference?

tried your suggestion , and still not working .
also even after pausing cloudflare it didn't work , so I really don't know .

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Originally Posted by ozzy47

Check out, your server's access logs and see if it is actually trying to access your site, should look something like this, 123.0.21.3 - - [28/Aug/2012:21:29:57 +0100] "POST /payment_gateway.php HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "-", and then check your sites error log and see if you see something like this, [Tue Aug 28 21:29:57 2012] [error] [client 123.0.21.3] client denied by server configuration:

I haven't done yet what you told me , but I've just seen something weird on the transaction logs

[ozzy47]

In setting up paid subscriptions for the first time there is a lot that can go wrong. A common problem is that payments are received but vBulletin doesn't register the payment and doesn't change the user's group memberships appropriately. Here are several things you can check based on my experience troubleshooting these problems.

1) Make sure your paypal emails are correct and that they are entered exactly the same as in your paypal account. Note that these emails are known to be case sensitive:

Admin CP -> Paid Subscriptions -> Payment API Manager -> Edit

2) Make sure the test communication is working:

Admin CP -> Paid Subscriptions -> Test Communication

3) Make sure you heed the warnings on this page:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/m...scriptions_add

Warning:
Do not change the cost of a Subscription if a recurring payment is currently in use, these payments will fail to update.

Warning:
Do not set a Paypal subscription to greater than 100 days. Use the months or years options to set subscriptions greater than 100 days.

Also note that the duration of a paid subscription cannot exceed a time that would put the expiration date past the year 2037 as that is the highest complete year that can be represented by a 32 bit integer timestamp. PHP is currently limited to 32 bit integers.

4) Make sure your forum directory is not behind a htaccess login because that will prevent paypal from accessing the callback URL.

5) Make sure your forum URL is correct as that is used to build the callback URL:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Site Name / URL / Contact Details -> Forum URL

If this is your forum:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

...then the forum URL should be set to:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum (no ending slash)

6) And if you are specifying the IPN URL in your paypal account then make sure that is correct. If this is your forum:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

Then the IPN URL should be:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/payment_gateway.php?method=paypal

7) Login to paypal.com and make sure you are actually receiving the money from the purchases. Make sure the transactions are marked as "completed." Also, make sure your paypal account is not configured to require your approval for incoming payments. Otherwise the payments won't complete until you approve them.

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If it still doesn't work then it might be due to some customizations on your forum. You can determine this by temporarily removing your customizations to see if the problems goes away. Try to reproduce it on a default style:

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager -> [Add New Style]

Create a new style with no parent. Then click that style's name in the Style Manager to view your forum with that style.

If you still have the problem then try disabling your plugins:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Plugin/Hook System

Also run a file check to look for customized files:

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Suspect File Versions

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by kh99

Wouldn't the url be https://removed.com/payment_gateway.php?method=paypal

That would be a no. All you need is the site URL. If you look in the template, the gateway is in a hidden field.

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[kh99]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

That would be a no. All you need is the site URL. If you look in the template, the gateway is in a hidden field.

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So you're saying that you know that Paypal will take the start of a URL that you enter at the site, then take the /payment_gateway.php?method=paypal part off what you specify in the request (it starts with {vb:raw vboptions.bburl}, which is your forum url, so that would have to be stripped off)? OK, I must have missed that when I read the docs. What I did read is that if you specify a notify_url, it will be called regardless of the settings in your paypal profile, but I might have misunderstood.

[kh99]

Here's some information on setting up paypal: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...k-these-things

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by kh99

So you're saying that you know that Paypal will take the start of a URL that you enter at the site, then take the /payment_gateway.php?method=paypal part off what you specify in the request (it starts with {vb:raw vboptions.bburl}, which is your forum url, so that would have to be stripped off)? OK, I must have missed that when I read the docs. What I did read is that if you specify a notify_url, it will be called regardless of the settings in your paypal profile, but I might have misunderstood.

No. Look in the template, subscription_payment_paypal. All that info is passed along to PayPal when you submit to them.

Sometimes though you need to enter your site URL to receive the Instant Payment Notification. Why, I don't know. Some sites have to set it up, some sites don't.

I went through all this crap when setting up vBDonate when I was at DBTech. So line I had said, if you are not getting the expected results when someone pays, you start there. Then you check out, your server's access logs and see if it is actually trying to access your site, should look something like this, 123.0.21.3 - - [28/Aug/2012:21:29:57 +0100] "POST /payment_gateway.php HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "-", and then check your sites error log and see if you see something like this, [Tue Aug 28 21:29:57 2012] [error] [client 123.0.21.3] client denied by server configuration:

While doing vBDonate, to make it even easier to track issues, the SandBox ability was added to the mod, in order to put the system into test mode, so you could do full transactions in a testing environment, to trace down the potential issues.

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by kh99

Here's some information on setting up paypal: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...k-these-things

Yes I mentioned all of it in this post http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...9&postcount=20

[kh99]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Yes I mentioned all of it in this post http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...9&postcount=20

Oh yeah, that's the same post word for word. Sorry I wasted everyone's time by posting a link to it.

[ozzy47]

It's cool Kevin, the more eyes on everything, the better.

[thetechgenius]

Are you using CloudFlare Free SSL, or do you actually have a Paid SSL Certificate? I pay yearly for a Comodo Wildcard SSL certificate, and my vB forum works perfectly fine with cloudflare and SSL.

[HM666]

Also to elaborate on Ozzy's post. When putting in your paypal email address use the "PRIMARY" payment email address on your account. If you have more than one email account on your paypal and you put an address that is not the primary address you do sometimes get problems in vBulletin.

[angemon]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

That would be a no. All you need is the site URL. If you look in the template, the gateway is in a hidden field.

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here you said NO it's only the website url that should be written , but in your first reply you told me to write in IPN the same thing @kh99 said.
6) And if you are specifying the IPN URL in your paypal account then make sure that is correct. If this is your forum:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/
Then the IPN URL should be:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/payme...?method=paypal

Also all the mentioned things are already made and didn't change anything , the only thing that I didn't get is this one, would you explain it more:
4) Make sure your forum directory is not behind a htaccess login because that will prevent paypal from accessing the callback URL.