PayPal IPN handshake invalid

[ducohosting]

Hello,

 

I recently moved to a new domain and server, and ever since doing so I've had difficulties with PayPal IPN.

 

It seems that the IPN handshake has failed. I have already recompiled Apache with CurlSSL, this did not fix it.

 

Server information:

WHM/cPanel 11.42.1.16

PHP version: 5.4 (Native) - On another note, whenever I select any other php version, the WHMCS client area throws 500 errors

 

Any help in resolving the issue would be appreciated!

 

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Additionally, here is an example of the IPN message:

 

transaction_subject => 644
payment_date => 12:21:03 May 26, 2014 PDT
txn_type => web_accept
last_name => 
residence_country => NL
item_name => Duco Hosting - Invoice #SGHT201405_382
payment_gross => 
mc_currency => EUR
business => paypal@ducohosting.com
payment_type => instant
protection_eligibility => Ineligible
verify_sign => BLABLABLABLA
payer_status => verified
tax => 0.00
payer_email => CUSTOMERS PAYPAL EMAIL
txn_id => SECRETSECRETSECRET
quantity => 1
receiver_email => paypal@ducohosting.com
first_name => cas
payer_id => NOPENOPENOPE
receiver_id => NOPENOPENOPE
item_number => 
handling_amount => 0.00
payment_status => Completed
payment_fee => 
mc_fee => 0.01
shipping => 0.00
mc_gross => 0.01
custom => 644
charset => windows-1252
notify_version => 3.8
ipn_track_id => 4b47d85a07

 

I have removed some information that I deem personal.

[durangod]

have you tried using the paypal sandbox to test this, with sandbox you can also test to make sure your getting connection if you plug in the data manually. I assume when you say invalid you mean it failed connection. OR do you mean that it made connection it just didnt pass it back to you via IPN?

[ducohosting]

Hey,

 

It is getting the initial notification, because that quoted information came from the WHMCS gateway log.

As far as I can tell, all information was passed to my server by PayPal, but there was some authentication issue (I assume) that made it stop. I'll test with sandbox and post back the results.

[ducohosting]

The issue has been resolved. Here's how I did it:

 

- Even though the WHMCS docs say that the encoding Windows-1252 would work, it didn't for me. I followed the instructions on the docs page to enable replies in the same encoding as sent messages, but this didn't work.

- To fix it, I simply changed my IPN encoding language in paypal to the same I had set in WHMCS->setup->general configuration->localisation.