No Shop Currency defined!

[blackrat999]

After a test live paypal purchase which all works fine i return to the merchant and get :

Warning
No Shop Currency defined! Go to https://www.malbersfabrics.co.uk/xxxxxxxxx/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=user&task=editshop

as you can see from the screenshot the currency is defined, it was on GB and Euro, i have changed that to just GB and ensured all required fields are complete on all tabs but another test afterwards does the same thing. otherwise it all completes)

why am i getting this error please?

Joomla 3.9.8
VM 3.4.2

[blackrat999]

Anyone please?

[Jörgen]

Have You made sure that Your safe path is an absolute URL ?

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[blackrat999]

Thanks for helping out.
My safe path is /home/xxxx/public_html/vxxxx/

I have this the same on about 10 other VM shops and they all work fine, not had this error before.

having checked instructions at https://docs.virtuemart.net/faqs/110-how-to-set-the-safe-path.html i have adjusted this so that it is now inside my administrator folder but otherwise i seem to have complied with instructions

[Jörgen]

I do not know for certain, but this is directly taken from the tooltip for the safepath:

Path for downloadable goods for sale and your invoices. This path is meant from your file root, not Joomla root. Attention - you must enter an absolute path here and it should (not must) be outside of your domain directory (i.e. httpdocs)

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[blackrat999]

having checked the instructions for safepath im pretty sure this is correct now

/home/username/public_html/administrator/randomname/

done another test and still get this when you click "return to merchant" after Paypal payment has gone through

Warning

No Shop Currency defined! Go to https://www.malbersfabrics.xx.xx/administrator/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=user&task=editshop

[Jörgen]

Taken from Microsoft documentation:

An absolute URL uses the following format: scheme://server/path/resource

A relative URL typically consists only of the path, and optionally, the resource, but no scheme or server.

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[blackrat999]

I had looked at the same page and have to confess to not really understanding it. I relied on the VM instructions of:

For safety reasons it is very important to create a folder in a path not accessible by an URL or with an unguessable name, create also a folder 'invoices' and 'keys' in it to store your sensitive data secure. Our suggested path is for your system /home/username/vmfiles

I tried this one to start with and it saved saying it was right (the currency error still occurred) and i then made it a bit better by setting it inside the administrator folder, it still said it was right (and the currency error was still present)

so /home/username/public_html/administrator/randomname/ seems to be acceptable to virtuemart and checking my other installations is all the same throughout and on none others do i get the currency error - so a bit stuck :-(

[jenkinhill]

Safe path /home/username/public_html/administrator/randomname/  looks correct to me as long as administrator/randomname/  exists

Shot in the dark. Is Payment Currency in PayPal config set to GBP?

[blackrat999]

Thanks to you too - yes the folders exist and VM agrees it is correct.
Paypal shipping is indeed set to GBP

[blackrat999]

Also just removed the Paypal payment option and set another one - same error message :-(

[blackrat999]

Thanks for suggestions so far - still getting the error message after sales go through, hopefully someone might have an idea what is causing this.

[Jörgen]

Just a hunch, create a new paypal payment itm with everything correctly added and inactivate the old item. If the new one works, delete the old one.

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[blackrat999]

I tried that yesterday, not difference, keep firing hunches please!!

[jjk]

Did you set the shop owner as a vendor in the 'Shop Edit' view?