preston Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Hi I don't have a spare domain name and web hosting to test out the Paypal IPN. What I have is a local server which is MAMP. I have tried to do what is instructed on page 151 to enable IPN using the localhost address below: http://localhost:8888/EBOOKSTORE_PROJECT/ipn.php With the thanks.php and cancel.php I was able to use http://localhost:8888/EBOOKSTORE_PROJECT/thanks.php and http://localhost:8888/EBOOKSTORE_PROJECT/cancel.php I'm not too sure why it won't work for ipn.php. Is there a way around this, given that I am using MAMP and I don't have any active URL domain name and web hosting to use to enter into the Notification URL field? Thank you very much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 It won't work with the IPN script because PayPal has no way to get to http://localhost. Localhost is a domain that, by definition, is only available to the same computer. The only work around I would know of is very complicated, requiring DNS management, router configuration, and more, and may not even be possible depending upon your ISP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preston Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 Hi Larry, I see what you mean.... I'll just skip this IPN part for now then... Thank you very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 You're quite welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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