Handling PayPal Cancel URL when using Structure
Development and Programming
I’m running EE 2.1.1 with Structure 2.1.5.
I also use Membrr with OpenGateway. The payment gateway is PayPal EC.
All pages on the website are controlled using Structure so if a page isn’t known by Structure, a 404 is issued…
The problem I’m having is that when a customer cancels their payment on PayPal EC and redirected back to my website the URL is:
http://www.domain.org/en/network/purchase/?token=EC-00E472048W399303E
Which isn’t known by Structure so therefore the user gets a nice 404 page (which is not what I want)
How can I work around this and show my cancellation page:
http://www.domain.org/en/network/cancelled/
Please advise.
Sean
You could turn off Strict URLs off so your pages won’t serve the 404 – then where needed you can use require_entry=”yes” in your channel:entries tag to force a 404 redirect.
Alternately, create the /network/purchase/ URL with Structure and point it at whatever template you’d like.
Hi Jack,
I have Strict URL’s off and ‘require_entry’ set to yes. I also have the two pages ‘purchase’ and ‘cancelled’ setup within Structure but I’m still getting a 404.
http://www.domain.org/en/network/cancelled/?token=XYZ
It’s the ?token= segment part of the URL that Structure isn’t liking and therefore returning an 404
Do you have Freebie installed by chance?
No
What’s in your .htaccess file? It’s possible that’s what’s killing the query string. Structure itself ignores query strings, so i’m pretty sure that’s not the issue.
I’ve ended up writing a plugin to check the URL for a token returning true or false. based on the results perform a redirect.