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    IPN with PayPal

    Here is my second PayPal question.

    It seems that IPN is the best choice for an online merchant system with PayPal. In order to test the system I have taken the advice to set up a sandbox first.

    I seem to be having some problems with doing this. First of all, there is a list of types to pick:

    h t t p : / / w w w . arguemax.com/sandbox/sandbox%20001.jpg

    From this list, I picked "Web Accept".

    This page asks for the "IPN handler URL". I assume this is supposed to be the URL of the page that we set up that to be used as the location where PAYPAL sends confirmation to and the page has PHP and MYSQL script to put a confirmation in the database.

    Anyway, I got an error message:

    h t t p : / / w w w . arguemax.com/sandbox/sandbox%20002.jpg

    Did I do something wrong or is it the fault of the sandbox?

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    Re: IPN with PayPal

    This means that your web server returned a Http 500 status when IPN attempted to connect to it to post the IPN notification.

    I'm not familiar with php/mysql, but check your server logs and hopefully there is a log file somewhere that will tell you the specific php error that generated the 500.

    (500 is the http status code indicating that there was a programming error in your PHP script).

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    Re: IPN with PayPal

    Xarzu, we have a forum specifically for this type of question. Please don't post them in General Discussion. Not only are you less likely to get help, but it makes work for us in having to move them. Please read the forum descriptions to see what they are for.

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