https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning Gravity Support Forums Topic: PayPal Instant Payment Notification Warning en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:15:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-56339 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:13:56 +0000 Rob Harrell 56339@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Right on, thanks for letting us know - ironic name too! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-56320 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:23:33 +0000 cgrymala 56320@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>After a few days of watching things, it looks like the plugin Bad Behavior was causing our issues. With it disabled, everything appears to be working properly now that we have that disabled. Thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-55708 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:13:42 +0000 cgrymala 55708@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We modified the IPN notification URL earlier today to include the debug switch. So far, I haven't seen any additional information in our error log. I did see a handful of errors related to the User Registration add-on (which we had enabled, but weren't using, so I disabled it).</p> <p>I also found that the Bad Behavior was causing issues with the form (when someone clicked "Pay with PayPal", instead of being taken to PayPal, they would sometimes get a 403 error), so I disabled that. I'm not sure if that might have also been causing the PayPal IPN errors or not.</p> <p>I'll let you know when I have more information. Thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-55592 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:30:57 +0000 cgrymala 55592@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I noticed you included "admin.php" in the URI you provided. Is that supposed to be part of the IPN callback URI, or is that a typo?</p> <p>In the meantime, I'll have the client add <code>&amp;debug=1</code> to the IPN callback URI. Thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-55492 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:39:23 +0000 Alex Cancado 55492@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>What we need to do is:<br /> 1- enable logging for the PayPal Add-on. You can do that by going to the PayPal's settings page and adding &amp;debug=1 to the query string. Your URL should look something like the following "http://yoursite.com/admin.php?page=gf_settings&amp;addon=PayPal&amp;debug=1"<br /> You should then see an option to enable debugging. Go ahead and change it to "Log all Messages".<br /> 2- Take a look at your web server's log and see if you can find the errors from the IPN message from PayPal </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-55487 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:14:41 +0000 cgrymala 55487@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Just had the client check their PayPal account. They do, in fact, have 2 transactions from the last 24 hours marked as "Retrying" in their account.</p> <p>Any suggestions?</p> <p>When I try to go directly to <a href="http://www.example.com/?page=gf_paypal_ipn" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/?page=gf_paypal_ipn</a> (again, replaced the client's actual domain with "example.com") in my browser, I just see the website's home page. Am I supposed to see something else? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-55483 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:44:38 +0000 Alex Cancado 55483@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>If your entries are marked as "Completed", the IPN handler did not fail, so I am wondering what is going on. One thing you can do is log into your PayPal account and go to Profile -&gt; IPN History. Take a look at the IPN History and let me know if there are any IPN's that have failed or are in "retrying" status </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-55460 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:44:27 +0000 cgrymala 55460@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I was just notified of this same problem on a client's site. The full content of the email message from PayPal is (with their actual URL replaced with "example.com"):</p> <blockquote><p>Please check your server that handles PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN). IPNs sent to the following URL(s) are failing:</p> <p><a href="http://www.example.com/?page=gf_paypal_ipn" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/?page=gf_paypal_ipn</a></p> <p>If you do not recognize this URL, you may be using a service provider that is using IPN on your behalf. Please contact your service provider with the above information. If this problem continues, IPNs may be disabled for your account. </p> <p>Thank you for your prompt attention to this issue.</p></blockquote> <p>Do you have any advice on correcting this issue? Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-53743 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:25:01 +0000 mrwilljackson 53743@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>My Return URL issue seems to be sorted now, but i've received another warning from paypal that the IPN is failing - although all transactions appear in my gForm entries, and match those in the paypal account.... I'd rather not have my clients paypal account suspended ;-)</p> <p>cheers</p> <p>Will </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/paypal-instant-payment-notification-warning#post-53665 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:00:44 +0000 mrwilljackson 53665@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi - I 've just got a warning email from paypal with the following:</p> <p>Please check your server that handles PayPal Instant Payment Notifications<br /> (IPN). Instant Payment Notifications sent to the following URL(s) are<br /> failing:<br /> <a href="http://www.mydomain.co.uk/?page=gf_paypal_ipn" rel="nofollow">http://www.mydomain.co.uk/?page=gf_paypal_ipn</a></p> <p>although the payments exist in paypal and the entries are up to date with transaction ID's, date and amounts in my GF entries page.</p> <p>I also have a problem that the return url doesn't seem to be functioning as after the payment the user is directed back to the blank payment form. I thought I had things set up sandbox OK, but now I'm live there seems to be a problem.</p> <p>Please can anyone shed any light on this, my client doesn't wish to have her paypal account disabled. I also have a second site with the exact same setup with the same problem with return url.</p> <p>cheers</p> <p>Will </p>