Laravel not receiving paypal webhook events - php

Question

hello i am new at laravel and i build an eCommerce platform (details aren't important)
anyway my problem is i created a route that can catch all event from paypal webhook but when i directly access to it it's working but when i try from paypal webhook Simulator or even if did a sandbox payment didn't go through
i know the problem is from csrf verification and i tried excluding the route but didn't work and also tried creating a new RouteServiceProvider
here is my code in the Controller so i can catch anything from the request
$headers = getallheaders();
file_put_contents("/home/username/public_html/test.txt", json_encode($headers));
here is my route
Route::domain(env("APP_DOMAIN"))->group(function () {
Route::get('/paypal/n', 'HomeController#notifications');
});
i used domain(env("APP_DOMAIN")) because everyone can add his own domain and i want this to work just in the main domain .
the code in the RouteServiceProvider
public function map()
{
$this->mapApiRoutes();
$this->mapWebRoutes();
$this->mapPaymentRoutes();
//
}
protected function mapPaymentRoutes()
{
Route::middleware('payment')
->namespace($this->namespace)
->group(base_path('routes/payment.php'));
}
and of course i did define the payment middleware in the file Kernel.php and comment the VerifyCsrfToken class
protected $middlewareGroups = [
'web' => [
\App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
\Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
// \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
\App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
],
'payment' => [
\App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
\Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
// \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
// \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
],
'api' => [
'throttle:60,1',
\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
],
];
and even with all this and like a lot of test i couldn't get it to work
if i send a request to a pure php file it's working fine.
can you please help me with this i tried to find a solution in my own but it takes me like 15 days without any luck
i use laravel 6 .

Answer 1

in case someone else is struggling with this problem i had to do a work a round by creating a pure php file in public and send webhook request to that file url/file.php and the file catch data and send it to a command i created inside laravel to process it, so that everything that has anything to do with database is inside laravel and the file.php is just like a pipe .
i know it's not the best idea but it's not the worst either
and thanks for everyone who tried to help me .