IPN errors in paypal SOLUTION

[cynmob]

Passing these on in case they help someone else. I am STILL not getting emails to customers with download links, but working on that today.

Joomla 1.5.7  VM 1.1.2 Godaddy server  Paypal as only option.

At first I had the error checking thing turned on and I got nothing but IPN errors without details from the eliteweaver folks. BUT whenever I try to follow a link to eliteweaver, either typing in or clicking on the sticky note in this board, I got a SITE NOT FOUND error -- in IE and in Firefox.

As I changed things, I got fewer errors until I got the payments posting correctly. The only thing I am missing now is email of download link to customers. Open to help.

Here's what worked.
1. Turn OFF the error checking. That way I got a specific error report email from Paypal on the post back. It said the amounts didn't match. Since I had tax tables set up in Paypal (it's used on a bunch of sites) it was adding tax again onto the amount (price plus tax) it received from VM. Thus when it talked back to VM, the amounts were different. I would not have known that if I did not turn off the error check thing. I bet it would be the same thing if I had shipping set up in paypal.

2. Use primary email as used on paypal, not secondary. I'd set up an additional email in Paypal, not the primary one. It made a difference when I changed the paypal email address in VM to just the primary one.

3. I pasted in the code provided in the sticky note at the top of this board.

4. Set inventory level on the downloadable product to 1,000.

Hope that helps.
Cyn Mobley

[cynmob]

Update: Operator error on the download emails. The file to download was labeled as a product image.
So I'm getting the emails with the download links now. Two errors remain to fix, or at least two that I know about:
1. The link email has a link to the changelog and to the download link and shows the changelog file.
2. THe download link doesn't, technically, work, since I get a few characters at the top of the page and the file doesn't actually download. But I think that's an issue for a different board.

[cynmob]

Well, what I finally had to do was upgrade my godaddy hosting account to premium and relocate all my domains on that one account. It actually saves me a bit, since they were spread out amongst economy hosting and godaddy gave me an SSL certificate for a year with the upgrade.
And then I had to do manual installs instead of auto installs, but NOW everything, including all buttons, is working!