I have a website ( say for example ABC.com ) that works perfectly, and which is triggered by a file named :-
index.html
I have included a paypal facility on my website.
When a transaction is successfully completed, I want an 'Auto Return', so that after successfully paypal transaction, the website should return to a file called :-
return.html
In paypal I put the URL, of this file as :-
http://ABC.com/return.html

However, when a user completes a successful paypal transaction, the following error message appears :-
Can't find file

All my html files for my website are in the same directory, and this is also where I have placed the new file :- return.html

Can someone tell me, whether the URL is wrong, or whether the return.html file has been placed in the wrong location ?

hi the file is in the right place the only thing i can think of is that it been writen wrong make sure that it looking for the right file extension as i know sometimes if you ask it to use file html and the file is htm will have problems

Millwalllll, thanks for your help.

I gave the auto return URL file a *.HTML extension

I never gave my website files any extension, therefore do you think that they have the *.HTM extension ?

Millwall, presumably upper, and lowercase makes no difference ?

I have just checked these names :-

The return URL :- http://www.ABC.com/slingpurchaseconfirmation.html

The website html file name is :- SlingPurchaseConfirmation

The error message is :-

' The requested URL, was not found on this server '

Anybody got any ideas ?

Whats the online address of your problem>?

Are you sure that you are meant to be using HMTL and not PHP?

It is looking for the file on Paypal's server maybe?

Having just had a good look at my own PayPal account this is what they say about the 'successful payment' url:

Successful Payment URL: This is the destination to which you would like PayPal to send your customers when their payment has been successfully completed. This field can be any site on the Internet, for example, www.paypal.com. If you do not enter a Successful Payment URL, your customers will be sent to a PayPal jump page after completing payment.

I would suggest that you need to check the URL you have entered here very carefully. Make sure the url starts http:// and is letter perfect. One thing confuses me, you say you haven't given the pages extension such as *.html? I would check this very carefully as it may simply be the extension that is screwing around with your paypal.

yeah just try http://www.abc.com/return.html?

EDIT: Sorry you probably were ...

Originally Posted by ANGELO DUNDEE

I have a website ( say for example ABC.com ) that works perfectly, and which is triggered by a file named :-
index.html
I have included a paypal facility on my website.
When a transaction is successfully completed, I want an 'Auto Return', so that after successfully paypal transaction, the website should return to a file called :-
return.html
In paypal I put the URL, of this file as :-
http://ABC.com/return.html

However, when a user completes a successful paypal transaction, the following error message appears :-
Can't find file

All my html files for my website are in the same directory, and this is also where I have placed the new file :- return.html

Can someone tell me, whether the URL is wrong, or whether the return.html file has been placed in the wrong location ?

Sorry its seems to me a little too obvious to point this out but you say here you are trying to return the client to the url http://ABC.com/return.html, surely it should be http://www.ABC.com/return.html sorry if im just stating the obvious and that was a typo!!

Originally Posted by LtColumbo

Sorry its seems to me a little too obvious to point this out but you say here you are trying to return the client to the url http://ABC.com/return.html, surely it should be http://www.ABC.com/return.html sorry if im just stating the obvious and that was a typo!!

Why? both forms of URI are valid.