.htaccess - allowing file access for paypal

help with htaccess coding

[lionfishmedia]

I have been told that in order to get paypal order confirmations to correctly communicate back to my shopping cart i need to "have .htaccess unlocked access to website and PayPal notification script (gw_notify.php file) can get through"

Where gw_notify.php is the script on the site that communicates paypal completed transactions to the shopping cart (in-commerce). At the moment, a customer places an order, is driected to PayPal for the transaction and receives a receipt from PayPal. Our shopping cart only records that the order has been placed and has been set for PayPal payment, but does not acknowledge the completed transaction meaning we have to manually set the order as paid and initiate despatch.

Can anyone tell me what the correct coding or permissions are for the .htaccess so that I can get this to work?

Many Thanks

[jdMorgan]

We would need to know the location(s) and name(s) of the file(s) involved, and would need to know what access controls are currently implemented in your .htaccess file.

If your cart is an off-the-shelf script, you would probably have better luck asking in a cart-specific forum, since the people there will likely already know some or all of these details.

IOW, we can tell you generally how to change a spark plug. But if you ask questions about changing a spark plug on a specific year, make, and model of car with a specific engine, then we probably won't know all the details. For example, there's one car I heard about where you have to take a lot of parts off the engine just to get to the spark plugs...

Jim