sp3ctre

Hi,

I run a forum, and quite often people post with URL links as their first post and get blocked as spam. Most people are from the UK and the amount of spam coming from the UK is minimal, so I would be willing to take the risk of UK spam in order to avoid UK people getting blocked.

Cool, thanks for clarifying

Hi Jodaline,

Excellent, great news! It does seem an edge-case though, I’m not sure it’s normal for hosts to block IPN requests. Worth keeping in mind though, and maybe an “if all else fails” comment in the IPN section would work.

Have a great day ??

If I could just hi-jack this for one final clarification (for Gabriel) point that I mentioned earlier. I did a test using a different paypal account, where IPN was on but there was no address entered. It worked. This makes me think that it should work dynamically. Is this the case? If so it would allow multiple sites to use the same paypal account? I can see why it would not work if you had another sites IPN entered though.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by sp3ctre.

No problem, just thought I may be able to help after having a similar issue, but I think I’ve run out of ideas other than pulling the web log files. Am sure Gabriel will get to the bottom of it!

Good luck ??

Cheers Gabriel. Would be good to hear how this gets resolved if you don’t mind, as these IPN issues are quite hard to diagnose.

It looks like your wordpress site is non-www i.e. if you browse to www. then it redirects to remove the www. In that case your IPN should not have www. at the front of it.

Give it a try and let us know ??

Hi,

I think you are referring to mixed-content, in which case I don’t think that’s the issue, but your mixed content appears to be a couple of images loading with https://

Definitely check the www. issue, that caught me out once as well!

Ok, long shot, but is your site defaulted to https? And test mode is off?

Yeah, sounds like it. When you look at the payment (in wordpress) does the last log say waiting for IPN?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by sp3ctre.

Sounds like you are doing everything correctly from the site perspective, the IPN should just take you to your site. So you have IPN setup to the correct address and IPN is turned on… There is an option in Paypal to view your IPN history, to see if it’s attempted to call your IPN address. Also might be worth checking your web server logs (although the paypal IPN history should say if it called successfully or not).

We had the same problem, although we have it working now. Make sure your IPN in wordpress is set to the https address of your site (I think Paypal no longer support non-https). Also worth checking you can navigate to the IPN address. Just paste it in the address bar and it should take you to your site.

It’s all a bit confusing as I am sure we tested it with an account with no IPN address set and it worked. When we transferred it over to another account we had to over write the address. This makes me think it should work with a dynamic address but not sure if that’s the case. I always wondered what happens if you want to use two sites with a single paypal account.

Hi,

Yes, that is correct. Just makes it easier to match weird usernames to actual people without having to dive back into the WordPress user list.

Thanks,

Jim

Brilliant, tested it, works perfectly. Thanks!

To update, I managed to get the expiry to update when I used the renew function for the user and did a manual process, then went into admin and changed it from pending to complete.

I still can’t get any other method of adding payment to affect the expiry date on the subscription.

Nice one, looks like it is just what I am looking for.

Thanks,

Jim