I am trying to get the back and forth with PayPal working. I am using PayPal Website Payments Standard and it is configured like: 
When I place an order it gets processed correctly, the transaction appears in PayPal and the payment gets debited from my account and deposited to the company account.
On PayPal I have configured IPN to be Enabled and the Notification URL is https://www.my-site.com/paypal/ipn/ I have also tried to set this to https://www.my-site.com/paypal/ipn/index/ but both IPN status are constantly Retrying.
An example IPN message is:
mc_gross=0.20&invoice=100000073&protection_eligibility=Eligible&address_status=confirmed&item_number1=1&payer_id=UDRGS3QP5FEEW&tax=0.00&address_street=13 Old Drive&payment_date=12:19:26 Jul 24, 2019 PDT&payment_status=Completed&charset=windows-1252&address_zip=BT66 6JS&first_name=Peter&mc_fee=0.20&address_country_code=GB&address_name=Peter Bear¬ify_version=3.9&custom=&payer_status=verified&business=info@my-site.com&address_country=United Kingdom&num_cart_items=1&address_city=Belfast&verify_sign=AVKF91NKB8nqPQ86vcDt9PrSFBcfArsuGma.Sr8yXCBvd5zYcqyYCBzv&payer_email=my-email@hotmail.com&txn_id=5CV84837FR063293F&payment_type=instant&last_name=Bear&address_state=Antrim&item_name1=Cheap Test&receiver_email=info@my-site.com&payment_fee=&shipping_discount=0.00&quantity1=1&insurance_amount=0.00&receiver_id=MEAUFW4MCPDPG&txn_type=cart&discount=0.00&mc_gross_1=0.20&mc_currency=GBP&residence_country=GB&shipping_method=Default&transaction_subject=&payment_gross=&ipn_track_id=b71b6a024227d
Checking the payment_paypal_standard.log it contains:
2019-07-24T19:18:55+00:00 DEBUG (7): Array ( [request] => Array ( [business] => **** [invoice] => 100000073 [currency_code] => GBP [paymentaction] => sale [return] => https://www.my-site.com/paypal/standard/success/ [cancel_return] => https://www.my-site.com/paypal/standard/cancel/ [notify_url] => https://www.my-site.com/paypal/ipn/ [bn] => Magento_Cart_Community [item_name] => My Site [lc] => en_GB [charset] => utf-8 [amount] => 0.20 [tax] => 0.00 [shipping] => 0.00 [discount_amount] => 0.00 [item_number_1] => 1 [item_name_1] => Cheap Test [quantity_1] => 1 [amount_1] => 0.20 [cmd] => _cart [upload] => 1 [tax_cart] => 0.00 [discount_amount_cart] => 0.00 [city] => Belfast [country] => GB [email] => my-email@hotmail.com [first_name] => Peter [last_name] => Bear [zip] => BT9 7BT [state] => Antrim [address1] => 13 Old Drive [address2] => [address_override] => 1 ) [__pid] => 4685 ) The only entry in system.log is below, but I don’t know it’s relevance:
2019-07-24T19:59:31+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): Entity: line 9: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: hr line 7 and body in /home/admin/my-site.com/app/code/core/Mage/AdminNotification/Model/Feed.php on line 173 2019-07-24T19:59:31+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): </body></html> in /home/admin/my-site.com/app/code/core/Mage/AdminNotification/Model/Feed.php on line 173 2019-07-24T19:59:31+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): ^ in /home/admin/my-site.com/app/code/core/Mage/AdminNotification/Model/Feed.php on line 173 2019-07-24T19:59:31+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): Entity: line 9: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: body line 4 and html in /home/admin/my-site.com/app/code/core/Mage/AdminNotification/Model/Feed.php on line 173 2019-07-24T19:59:31+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): Entity: line 9: parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 2 in /home/admin/my-site.com/app/code/core/Mage/AdminNotification/Model/Feed.php on line 173 2019-07-24T19:59:51+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Space required after the Public Identifier in /home/admin/my-site.com/app/code/core/Mage/AdminNotification/Model/Feed.php on line 173 2019-07-24T19:59:51+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> in /home/admin/my-site.com/app/code/core/Mage/AdminNotification/Model/Feed.php on line 173 2019-07-24T19:59:51+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct(): ^ in /home/admin/my-site.com/app/code/core/Mage/AdminNotification/Model/Feed.php on line 173 All of this means that the order status sits at Pending Payment and I only have an option to change it to Processing manually. This does not kick in the email workflow and so no emails are sent to let us know a new order has occurred.
Is there anything that I have missed? I am not a Magento developer, I deal with .Net, but this was made for us by a local company that is not available anymore and there isn’t really the money to get someone else to look at it.
