1.8.13 crashes Paypal IPN

  • Resolved extremecarver

    (@extremecarver)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Wow – what a major crash for me. Not to blame it too much on you – but I just spent about 8 hours debugging finding out why I could not receive Paypal IPN notifications anymore (now need to spend 5-6 hours still to sort in lost payments).
    I mistakenly thought the bug must be due to nginx which I updated at the same time (back from holidy – so updated quite a few things – then noticed this morning that paypal IPN was not received anymore, so lesson learned once again – never update two things at a time…)

    IPNs should be received by:
    https://domain.com/?s2member_paypal_notify=1
    (this is address that s2member plugin uses to receive Paypal IPN)

    however with 1.8.13 they simply got lost somewhere. I did try to delete the trunk folder – seeing the above comment – but that did not help either.

    Actually I don’t need nginx helper as I don’t use fastcgi cache – just always thought it would improve some things – well..

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/nginx-helper/

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  • Plugin Author Rahul Bansal

    (@rahul286)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Sorry for issues you have faced.

    Nginx-Helpler doesn’t intercept any URL so your IPN not working cannot be related to nginx-helper. It could be conflict with some other plugin.

    If you are not using fastcgi-cache or multisite created before version WordPress 3.0, you don’t need to use this plugin at all.

    Thread Starter extremecarver

    (@extremecarver)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Sorry – I don’t know why in the case of deactivation it worked twice – must have been strange luck. The bug was on Paypal side – but thanks for making it clear I don’t need it. It was actually the case that paypal blocked default user-agent and wanted for each transaction a unique user agent (and of course they did not tell that to anyone…).

    But – it would be nice if it were clearer in the FAQ – that nginx helper does no other little things – e.g.

    If I don’t use any of the mentioned features/caches (fastcgi-cache or multisite created before version WordPress 3.0,) – do I need nginx-helper?
    No – nginx helper is not needed in that case!

    (as always it’s better not to use plugins you don’t really need – KISS is better)

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