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Recently, I swapped our Drupal CMS for Wordpress.  I was amazed at just how easy that was (our Civi database was separate from Drupal) -- I think it took about 20 minutes.  I used this guide http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Migrating+from+Drupal+to+WordPress on the wiki.

Anyway, I must have missed the 'Update the resource URLs' step.  Today, I was working on setting up IPN with our PayPal account, however, it was silently failing.  Nothing in the logs.  Using Firefox/Firebug, I was able to see the URL of the listener in the POST request to PayPal, and I realized that it corresponded to the old Drupal path, not the new WP one (the path actually still existed as I have each CMS in its own subdirectory, so it wasn't throwing a 404 error).

That led me to check the civicrm_settings table where I found the culprits.  These paths can be adjusted via the interface at Administer >> System Settings >> Resource URLs.  Once I fixed that, IPN worked immediately.

I thought I'd put that out here because in browsing the forum, I saw more than a few issues raised about IPN problems after a switch in CMS.  Seems obvious in retrospect.  Hope it saves you some time.

Cheers.