Virtuemart ipn and orders staying as pending

[lostpanther]

Hi my names matt

I have Joomla 2.5.22 and Virtuemart 2.0.24 'although it does update found click for 2.0.26d'
i have installed rupostels One Page Checkout
I am using Paypal standard - option , as recomended by stan from rupostel,

The problem is when I buy a product and paypal has processed my purchase, i am sent back to a thankyou page, the item is still in the cart and there is no confirmation email sent, and the order is still pending.

I can set Paypal to Express but this sends the buyer from paypal back to the cart for confirmation which is not ideal and a needless process 'the whole reason why we bought rupostels OPC'. Rupostel told us that the confirmation ipn is a conflict between virtuemart and paypal.

I have tried with the paypal APi, setting auto return to 'on'
? i am not sure what URL to put into the return URL to be honest? can you help ?

I have swithced on PDT payment data transfer.

I have added an ipn URL

http://beauty.capitalhosting.co.uk/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=pluginresponse&task=pluginresponsereceived

not sure if this is the correct ipn url, how do i find it?

Is there a way could give me advice,? do i need to update the vm software ? is it safe to do so ?
is there a patch code i need?

I even tried creating a new file

notify.php

<?php
include('administrator/components/com_virtuemart/notify.php');
?>

i put it in /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/

I have been told i can add the code below , where should i add it ?

"notify_url" => SECUREURL ."notify.php",

Really need help, and would appreciate any advice

Kind Regards

Matt

[GJC Web Design]

The first thing I would do is update your VM to the latest - 2.6.7 - comp & AOI

http://dev.virtuemart.net/attachments/download/762/com_virtuemart.2.6.7_extract_first.zip

Install on a clone or test site first and use the normal Joomla installer - NOT THE THING IN THE VM ADMIN!

Get the current version of the rupostal OPC and install

now test - because it should all just work out of the box without all this stuff your talking about

if it doesn't then try without the OPC - I have never had problems with Paypal confirmations on my installs

[seyi]

This may or may not help.  I recently spent over an hour debugging a problem with paypal payment not being confirmed.  In the end, the problem was a space " " at the end of the merchant email in configuration.  Taking out all spaces in that field fixed the problem.