I'm trying to test PayPal usage with the events module, but the PayPal return and cancel URLs are not working correctly.

The URLs being passed to PayPal are missing the domain name, and just have the following:

"/MySite/MyPage/tabid/54/ctl/PPEnroll/Mid/373/signupid/79/status/enrolled/Default.aspx"
"/MySite/MyPage/tabid/54/ctl/PPEnroll/Mid/373/signupid/79/status/cancelled/Default.aspx"

When I click on the return buttons in the PayPal site, the browser tries to go to www.sandbox.paypal.com/<return or cancel url> instead of (in my case) localhost:<portnumber>/<return or cancel url>

Is there something I am missing that is preventing the domain name (localhost) from being added to the URLs?

I'm having somewhat of the same problem...Mine was working fine when I was testing it on a local host, but now I'm testing it on the live site, and when I hit the return button in paypal, it loads "http://www.sandbox.paypal.com/(the rest of the return url)" instead of the correct website...any ideas?

Mike,

I'm testing this using Events 3.3.8 on DNN 4.8.2, and can't replicate the problem. I've test using Localhost, which I know you said worked. So also tested using full URL on my test environment. I'm using PayPal sandbox, and then clicking the Return Link on the first paypal page presented. This works fine everytime.

Before you login to PayPal Sandbox, the URL being sent to PayPal should be visble in the address bar. Could you have a look and see what is being passed. It should look something like the link below. I have altered various bits...:-

https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=ptest%40testdom.org.uk&item_name=Events+-+Single+Day+(+1.00+GBP+)&item_number=1&quantity=1&custom=10/04/2008&amount=1.00&currency_code=GBP&return=http://www.testdom.org.uk/338/Home/tabid/36/ctl/PPEnroll/Mid/374/signupid/1/status/enrolled/language/en-GB/Default.aspx&cancel_return=http://www.testdom.org.uk/338/Home/tabid/36/ctl/PPEnroll/Mid/374/signupid/1/status/cancelled/language/en-GB/Default.aspx&notify_url=http%3a//www.testdom.org.uk/338/DesktopModules/Events/EventIPN.aspx&undefined_quantity=&no_note=1&no_shipping=1

If you are using older versions or DNN, it maybe there is a bug in there generating the URL, since it calls a core function (NavigateUrl) to get the return url. I'm not saying it is a core problem, but it is a possibility.

Cheers
Roger