Getting Paypal to work - UK

[Rob1n]

Hi,

This is my first time using AbanteCart, I spent 2 days looking through all the available carts and settled for this one. I have successfully installed the software, tinkered with the design fairly easily to suit my site and configured most of it. I'm very impressed so far except i can't get it to do the one thing it needs to do and that's except just paypal payments.

I have gone to the Extensions/payments section and enabled the paypal extension (default_pp_standart) but when i go in to edit the paypal settings there are some things I can't change.

Store: default (that's fine)
Status: (is on)   
E-Mail: (i've entered the email i've got registered with my paypal account)   

Test Mode: (there's nothing in this box and no options to select!)   
Order Status:    (I've set to processing)
Transaction Method: (again, no options or anything)   
Location: (This is stuck on USA - but I'm in the UK)   

I have enabled Royal Mail for shipping although i haven't looked into that side of it yet to get that working, i wanted to get the paypal working first.

When i do a test purchase it bypasses paypal and just says thanks your order is being processed, or something like that.

I really like AbanteCart and i want to stick with it for this and future projects but i have to be able to get this paypal problem sorted. I'm sure it's just me and there's something obvious i'm not doing. The other thing is I haven't actually logged into my paypal account at all for this, do i need to do that at all to get paypal linked to the website?

Hope you can help!

[Rob1n]

Hi,

Just to update things, i have managed to change the default location to UK and set up my weight-based shipping but still have the problem with Paypal.

When i try to place an order i get: error: payment method required!

In the paypal extension the Test Mode and Transaction Method fields are still empty with no options to select anything.

..help!

[Rob1n]

Cleared all the cache and that looks like it's working OK now!

seo links don't work for me though, i renamed the .htacess file as instructed but still no luck.

[Rob1n]

Got the seo links working by opening and renaming the .htacess file as instructed and then opening the file and adding the sub directory where i installed the cart:

RewriteBase /abantecart/

I know the developers will probably think that's obvious but i thought i'd explain how i resolved it in case anyone else had the same issue.