Redirect old Paypal IPN to new Paypal IPN for Reoccuring Subscriptions

[Hummie]

Please help!
When I upgraded my forum, I changed the url from an uppercase to a lowercase (as is recommended). Now messages sent from Paypal to the forum notifying of payments are not working.
It was suggestion that I do an HT Access file to redirect from
http://www.mywebsite.com/Forum/payme...?method=paypal
to
http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/payme...?method=paypal


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I tried doing a simple 301 redirect and it did not work.

Is there ANYONE that can help me? vBulliten did send me to an instruction page, but said that this is not supported in their troubleshooting. I'm SO frustrated.

[your24hourstore]

you should be able to fix that link from the paypal end I would think

having a custom htaccess file made for you isn't going to be easy to get for free

better go to paypal and try and slip the new lowercase link into your account. not sure if its your redirection link getting back to the site after payment or what?

but if it don't work you probably can pay someone in paid help.

good luck.

[Hummie]

I have already contacted Paypal.

Maybe I am not making myself clear enough on the problem.

When someone creates a reoccurring subscription, the IPN url utilized at that time stays in the Paypal subscription of that particular subscribers subscription in Paypal and cannot be changed.

All new subscriptions are working fine. I've been told that I have to ask each an every person to unsubscribe and resubscribe to fix the problem.

It was suggested that if I could just get the old url IPN to redirect to the new IPN url, then all messages from Paypal to the forum would work.

I am surprised this has never come up before.

Hasn't anyone ever had an old forum that they upgraded to a new url and needed the old reoccuring subscriptions to transfer? Surely I am not the first.

I would be willing to pay a reasonable fee for help on this, but I just cannot imagination that others are not having the same problem and that something like this would be that hard to do, but then again, I am not that knowledgeable or I wouldn't be asking for help.

[Sajeth]

I could do this.
PM me with your MSN account, if you have one

[Hummie]

I have PM'd you, but you only have three posts here. This makes me leary.

[Hummie]

This is my last BIG problem since upgrading to VB4. I would like to get beyond this stress SO badly!

Here's what I wrote on my htaccess file that did not work that I put in my root folder.

redirect 301 /Forum/payment_gateway.php?method=paypal http://www.sitename.com/forum/paymen...?method=paypal


ANY IDEAS...PLEASE!

[your24hourstore]

hunm yep i see your problem now, it could be routed with htaccess for sure , but i cant make you one, i did kind of play around with it a bit and a fix might be possible, useing html

since your forums are now called Forums, if you make a new folder in root called forums, and stick a simple html redirect in that folder directing it back to Forums/index or where ever it should send any thing that comes in in to where ever you have it routed to, probibly wouldnt hurt anything untill you find someone to write you a file that will do it, or in your case http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/payme...?method=paypal
now you may rout it all to a thread or anouther page with an annoncment telling the issue with links to where ever
this is only a stop gap in case some one clicks on it tonight you see , but i would try that

of course i think not sure that all links in that format would wind up there
and of course a htaccess file could be put in there also.

sorry i hate htaccess

[Hummie]

I was doing some more reading and I think since the redirect involves .php that it may be more complicated codeing. I'm patiently waiting for someone to come along to help me. I did post in the offer to pay section. I don't want to pay too much money, but hopefully a reasonable amount for someone to just create the htaccess file for me and give me instructions on where to upload it. I'm not sure what a reasonable amount is. At this point, I'd probably overpay!

[your24hourstore]

Originally Posted by Hummie

I was doing some more reading and I think since the redirect involves .php that it may be more complicated codeing. I'm patiently waiting for someone to come along to help me. I did post in the offer to pay section. I don't want to pay too much money, but hopefully a reasonable amount for someone to just create the htaccess file for me and give me instructions on where to upload it. I'm not sure what a reasonable amount is. At this point, I'd probably overpay!

so make the redirect PHP its no biggies

 <?php
   //this will NOT work, the browser received the HTML tag before the script

   header( 'Location: http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/payme...?method=paypal
' ) ;
?>

not going to hurt anything i don't think make a new page name it index.php and stick it in that new folder with this code. you may need the real link untruncated though

im kind of interested to see if it would work!! :>

[Hummie]

Originally Posted by harleyparts

since your forums are now called Forums, if you make a new folder in root called forums, and stick a simple html redirect in that folder directing it back to Forums/index or where ever it should send any thing that comes in in to where ever you have it routed to, probibly wouldnt hurt anything untill you find someone to write you a file that will do it, or in your case http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/payme...?method=paypal

Okay, I will try your suggestion, it won't hurt and I appreciate any ideas. You never know if it will work!

However, in what I quoted of you above, you got it backwards.

My forum are now called forums.....lowercase.

So, is your php coding correct? I am making a folder called "Forums" and putting in your coding. It will redirect to the "forums" folder the way you have it written if I do that?