About: Gray Ayer

oh, I think my major flaw here then would be that I haven’t actually been using the short codes to output links on our join page (http://beautifulobscene.com/join/). I’m taking your suggestion to use the URL output shortcut option, I just to make sure that I’m doing things right, whereas before for my $19.99 “button” I was using:

<a href="https://bill.ccbill.com/jpost/signup.cgi?clientAccnum=945076&amp;clientSubacc=0000&amp;formName=146cc&amp;formPrice=19.95&amp;formPeriod=30&amp;formRecurringPrice=19.95&amp;formRecurringPeriod=30&amp;formRebills=99&amp;currencyCode=840&amp;s2_p1=1+M&amp;s2_p3=1+M&amp;s2_desc=Monthly+%2F+description+and+pricing+details+here.&amp;s2_invoice=3&amp;s2_custom=beautifulobscene.com&amp;s2_customer_ip=24.21.155.248&amp;s2_referencing=7&amp;formDigest=78bbfb52e83f4c2e04a88bc006214600"><label> $19.99 - 1 Month* <span>(recurring)</span></label></a>

Utilizing the proper short code, it would look like this:

<a href="[s2Member-Pro-ccBill-Button level="1" ccaps="" desc="Annual / description and pricing details here." cc="USD" custom="beautifulobscene.com" ta="0" tp="0" tt="D" ra="19.95" rp="1" rt="M" rr="1" image="default" output="url" /]
"><label> $19.99 - 1 Month* <span>(recurring)</span></label></a>

Right?

Thanks for all your guidance and help here, s2Member has an incredible amount of configurations and a bit of a learning curve.

I got another one today:

array (
    0 => 'IPN received on: Wed Jun 5, 2013 2:33:21 am UTC',
    1 => 's2Member POST vars verified with a Proxy Key',
    2 => 's2Member originating domain ( `$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]` ) validated.',
    3 => 's2Member `txn_type` identified as ( `web_accept|subscr_signup` ).',
    4 => 's2Member `txn_type` identified as ( `web_accept|subscr_signup` ) w/ update vars.',
    5 => 'Unable to modify Subscription. The existing User ID is associated with an Administrator. Stopping here. Otherwise, an Administrator could lose access.',
  ),

The last time that I was signed in was two days ago. I don’t recall if I logged out or not. Does this mean that if I’m working live on the site and signed and then no customers can sign up during that time automatically without me having to manually add their info as new users?

When I do you create a user manually, I insert the “Paid Subscr. ID” and the “registration IP” but is there anything else I need to include for S2member to disable someone’s account once their term is up and they haven’t renewed?

And as a side note (totally outside the realm of expected customer service), I love how the sign-in link on your website opens up a modal box for that. Great UI. Any leads on how I might implement something like that

My hosting company also made this change:

“The fix we put in place was to add a host entry to the hosts file. The s2member code was attempting to make an http request back to itself and was failing because it was using the public IP instead of the server’s private IP. The fix is still in place.”

Is there a way to avoid having s2member do this?

Awesome. thanks guys. I’ll give those a try and let you know of my results.

a ha! Finally it came through. Since the logs insisted that

5 => 'Signup Confirmation Email sent to: "NewJoinButton FakeGray" <fakegray@gmail.com>.',

I just checked my spam box and it was in there. Any suggestions on how to get gmail to avoid spamming this?

nope. that didn’t work either. I even created a new button at http://beautifulobscene.com/new-join/ to test that.
Perhaps i can create a test user for ccbill for you to test out the entire process, as this back and forth isn’t helping anyone I feel.

Do you have any answers for me as to the log file errors?

I’ve sent the corrected password information. In the meantime, how does one go about testing that my “server is able to connect/communicate with your Payment Gateway over an HTTPS connection.” since this seems to be one of the error messages I’m getting from the logs.

I’m trying to address the www or not situation but it takes some cooperation from ccbill and godaddy (who issued the security certificate).

ok. Before deactivating any of the other plug-ins or switching themes, I checked the log files again. Now it looks like those IPN logs have been created. paypal-ipn.log was created about 2 1/2 hours after the last membership sign-up transaction and paypal-ipn.log was created a full four hours afterwards.
I did try deactivating all of the other plug-ins, and the main modified theme we are using, Super Skeleton. To no avail.

I have checked and cURL is definitely enabled. Could this be up problem with my security certificate?

I sent to a secure private message as you requested with the required WordPress username and FTP info. Hopefully we can get something worked out their websites can start making money instead of losing it.

this is the text from paypal-ipn.log:

PHP v5.3.18 :: WordPress® v4748 :: s2Member® v121023 :: s2Member® Pro v121023
Memory 35.38 MB :: Real Memory 35.50 MB :: Peak Memory 35.44 MB :: Real Peak Memory 35.50 MB
beautifulobscene.com/?s2member_paypal_notify=1&s2member_paypal_proxy=ccbill&s2member_paypal_proxy_use=standard-emails,subscr-signup-as-subscr-payment&s2member_paypal_proxy_verification=33d0aeef0f4617c0458b0def536905ea
User-Agent: WordPress/3.4.2; http://beautifulobscene.com
array (
  's2member_log' => 
  array (
    0 => 'Unable to verify $_POST vars. This is most likely related to an invalid configuration of s2Member, or a problem with server compatibility.',
    1 => 'If you\'re absolutely SURE that your configuration is valid, you may want to run some tests on your server, just to be sure $_POST variables are populated, and that your server is able to connect/communicate with your Payment Gateway over an HTTPS connection.',
    2 => 's2Member uses the `WP_Http` class for remote connections; which will try to use `cURL` first, and then fall back on the `FOPEN` method when `cURL` is not available. On a Windows® server, you may have to disable your `cURL` extension; and instead, set `allow_url_fopen = yes` in your php.ini file. The `cURL` extension (usually) does NOT support SSL connections on a Windows® server.',
    3 => 'Please see this thread: `http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/ideal-server-configuration-for-s2member/` for details regarding the ideal server configuration for s2Member.',
    4 => 'array (
  \'s2member_paypal_notify\' => \'1\',
  \'s2member_paypal_proxy\' => \'ccbill\',
  \'s2member_paypal_proxy_use\' => \'standard-emails,subscr-signup-as-subscr-payment\',
  \'s2member_paypal_proxy_verification\' => \'33d0aeef0f4617c0458b0def536905ea\',
  \'txn_type\' => \'subscr_signup\',
  \'subscr_id\' => \'0112319302000000118\',
  \'recurring\' => \'1\',
  \'txn_id\' => \'0112319302000000118\',
  \'custom\' => \'www.beautifulobscene.com\',
  \'period1\' => \'1 M\',
  \'period3\' => \'1 M\',
  \'mc_amount1\' => \'19.95\',
  \'mc_amount3\' => \'19.95\',
  \'mc_gross\' => \'19.95\',
  \'mc_currency\' => \'USD\',
  \'tax\' => \'0.00\',
  \'payer_email\' => \'gray@ilikegray.com\',
  \'first_name\' => \'ThirdTimeUrlChange\',
  \'last_name\' => \'Basic\',
  \'option_name1\' => \'Originating Domain\',
  \'option_selection1\' => \'www.beautifulobscene.com\',
  \'option_name2\' => \'Customer IP Address\',
  \'option_selection2\' => \'24.21.191.187\',
  \'item_number\' => \'3\',
  \'item_name\' => \'Monthly / description and pricing details here.\',
)',
  ),
  's2member_paypal_proxy' => 'ccbill',
  's2member_paypal_proxy_use' => 'standard-emails,subscr-signup-as-subscr-payment',
  's2member_paypal_proxy_verification' => '33d0aeef0f4617c0458b0def536905ea',
)

and from ccbill-ipn.log :

PHP v5.3.18 :: WordPress® v3.4.2 :: s2Member® v121023 :: s2Member® Pro v121023
Memory 30.98 MB :: Real Memory 31.25 MB :: Peak Memory 31.05 MB :: Real Peak Memory 31.25 MB
www.beautifulobscene.com/?s2member_pro_ccbill_notify=1
User-Agent: 
array (
  'customer_fname' => 'ThirdTimeUrlChange',
  'customer_lname' => 'Basic',
  'email' => 'gray@ilikegray.com',
  'username' => '',
  'password' => '',
  'productDesc' => '',
  'price' => '$19.95 for 30 days ** $19.95 recurring every 30 days **',
  'subscription_id' => '0112319302000000118',
  'denialId' => '',
  'clientAccnum' => '945076',
  'clientSubacc' => '0000',
  'address1' => '555 SW Gimp',
  'city' => 'pdx',
  'state' => '',
  'country' => 'US',
  'phone_number' => '',
  'zipcode' => '97206',
  'start_date' => '2012-11-14 16:21:53',
  'referer' => '',
  'ccbill_referer' => '',
  'affiliate' => '',
  'reservationId' => '',
  'referringUrl' => 'http://beautifulobscene.com/join/',
  'reasonForDecline' => '',
  'reasonForDeclineCode' => '',
  'formName' => '146cc',
  'cardType' => 'MASTERCARD',
  'responseDigest' => '8273f380eaaf2f537d2737ca9910afa4',
  's2_desc' => 'Monthly / description and pricing details here.',
  's2_customer_ip' => '24.21.191.187',
  's2_invoice' => '3',
  's2_custom' => 'www.beautifulobscene.com',
  's2_p1' => '1 M',
  's2_p3' => '1 M',
  'typeId' => '0',
  'initialPrice' => '19.95',
  'initialPeriod' => '30',
  'recurringPrice' => '19.95',
  'recurringPeriod' => '30',
  'rebills' => '99',
  'initialFormattedPrice' => '$19.95',
  'recurringFormattedPrice' => '$19.95',
  'ip_address' => '24.21.191.187',
  's2member_log' => 
  array (
    0 => 'IPN received on: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:22:00 pm UTC',
    1 => 's2Member POST vars verified with ccBill®.',
    2 => 'ccBill® transaction identified as ( `RECURRING/SUBSCRIPTION` ).',
    3 => 'IPN reformulated. Piping through s2Member\'s core/standard PayPal® processor as `txn_type` ( `subscr_signup` ).',
    4 => 'Please check PayPal® IPN logs for further processing details.',
  ),
)