404 error when opening ‘view’ ticket link from anywhere (email, backend order)

@dhoogmoed We’ve looked at this and cannot replicate it at all.

Could we possibly get a login to the site so we can take a look? If so, if you can email info at opentickets.com and use that as username, we’ll take a look at the settings.

Thank you,

Have just created an account as requested. You should have received an email in [email protected].

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Thank you

Dik Hoogmoed

Hi there,
I am having what looks like the same issue. The link that is included in the customers confirmation email, and to the order on the backend, results in a 404 error. The URL is built with the SITE URL rather than the HOME URL (which is why there is a 404 page error)

This is an example of the URL from a confirmation email:
https://frolic.torontoknittersguild.ca/wordpress/ticket/fHx8MjAwMS4yMDE3LjUyOX4wMzg1ZWVhZjg5Mjk0NTA1YzM4OGQyMjQ4MjI0ZjFmODMzOWVmY2Jl/?n=dfed66788d4818d8c4b775b75c0c2169

I have noted that if I manually update the url in the address bar to remove the subdirectory in the path, I see that the ticket is there.

Where could I make the change to correct the URL for the ticket?
With thanks, Vivian

(I previously posted this query with a resolved issue which is why I am posting it again)

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+ #1992 “General Admission” (40) [1 EA]

I think I have found a solution to this.
Edited the file /inc/sys/ticket/ticket.class.php in the plugin directory. Updated 4 instances of the variable “site_url” changing it to “home-url”.

With this change, the confirmation email and the customer order screen now contain the correct url link to the tickets.

@dhoogmoed @viviangoffart

This change is going to be in an upcoming version.

It is very infrequent that people alter the home url in the WP admin, but we’re going to make a change in the next version.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by quadshot. Reason: had the terms reversed

When is the next update scheduled?

@viviangoffart @dhoogmoed

We’re actually trying to replicate this issue with our current version of OTCE and cannot replicate the problem.

Are you on the latest version of OpenTickets?

Also, how did you setup your subdomains/Subdirs?

Last, is this Multisite?

We’ve setup

subdomain.domain.com/wordpress

and

sudomain.subdomain.domain.com/wordpress

and all the email links, my account links and box office (even though you don’t have that Extension, we checked) and all the links work.

I am running OpenTickets 2.6.5
It is the only version I have tried.

NOT multisite

my setup is
subdomain.domain.com/wordpress
but my HOME URL is subdomain.domain.com (without the subdir)

( * Home URL: [neutral] https://frolic.torontoknittersguild.ca
* Site URL: [neutral] https://frolic.torontoknittersguild.ca/wordpress )

Sorry for delayed reply as I was on vacation — otherwise happy to help improve your product!

Whenever I setup a wordpress site, I always install wordpress in a subdir but use a HOME URL without the subdir.

@viviangoffart @vilonovtrade

With the latest version which is 2.6.5 we’ve tested with all the above scenarios and we’re getting ticket links.

If you updated Permalinks under Settings -> Permalinks and still have this issue, can you please get on a screen share with me?

You can schedule that here:

https://opentickets.com/schedule-meeting/

We just can’t get that error to reproduce.

Apologies All,

Have been busy with other issues/sites off late. I worked around the problem in the end by creating a new web-shop on a new domain name from scratch. This worked fine and tickets have been successfully sold in the mean time.

The original install has been removed so I can’t validate any of the responses any longer.

Thanks for the feedback,

Dik

solved for me

Dik

I am using the ticketing system for an upcoming event and I do not want to make any changes to settings at this time.

The links are working fine for me now, ever since I updated the file /inc/sys/ticket/ticket.class.php in the plugin directory, replacing the instances of variable “site_url” with “home-url”.

If I have a chance, I will install the plugin on another site to see if I can recreate the issue.