Richard Foley

I need to use Revive with Booking.com. I've seen the excellent "using adsense with revive" article from Erik, here: http://www.revive-adserver.com/faq/using-google-adsense-with-revive-adserver/ but (obviously) this only supports a specific set of "known" third party ad servers. At the current time, Booking.com appears to be not supported. Does anyone know if Booking.com *will* be supported any time soon? Or, (if booking.com support is not so complicated), have suggestions for how to support it? Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions.

Here's a new plugin which lets advertisers self-service upload their own banners, just released. More info here: http://plugins.rfi.net/downloads/rfi-adserver-uploads-plugin/ Admin/managers have an interface to approve the banners uploaded.

There are a lot of "permission denied" errors to be seen, relating to creating/writing to the sessions file. I'd start with that...

Might that be a left-over from an earlier openx installation?

clone the Revive repo. and fork your own branch from that.

You might be interested in the self-service image banner uploader plugin from RFI (full disclosure as the author here): http://plugins.rfi.net/revive-adserver-banner-uploads-plugin-v1-0-4-released/You'll also find self-service sign-up plugins there, too.

The detailed instructions for upgrading Revive are found here: http://www.revive-adserver.com/support/upgrading/

I think you'll find there's also an option, under the popup menu, to "apply limitations, which are attached to this banner, to ALL the banners in a particular campaign". Which is really neat! Just when you think it's complicated and laborious, Revive comes up with some very cool shortcuts. :)

Update: Advertiser self-service multiple banner uploads into existing campaign/s plugin just released: http://plugins.rfi.net/revive-adserver-banner-uploads-plugin-v1-0-3-released/

As I understand it, (please correct me if I'm wrong here), there is a "Time Between Banner Cache Updates" setting. This sounds like maybe the cache kicked in...?

Good job for finding the problem, Luna :) (y)

just FYI, this is still (at the time of writing) an issue. The link Erik posted (below) just points back to itself. Perhaps it's possible to update the post with a manual link entry, so we can at least follow the "link"...?

hi Luna, I've just tried setting a local test up myself using different revive calls. You can see this test here, where you should see three (3) ads, (where1=spc, 2=async, 3=js). Interestingly, all 3 calls work just fine there, (when the file resides on the revive server host). However, the async (middle) call does NOT work when I copy and paste the identical file onto my LOCAL system. Therefore, I suspect *something* in the handling of the network handshake/exchange. Remember I had a similar problem when my DNS was invalid and didn't pick up the server destination correctly. It's *possible* something like this is hitting both of us in a similar way here. I notice that the working file has an iframe loaded where the successful async calls from, and the non-working local version receives nothing. This is strange because this is loading the identical html file, placed in two different locations, (local=fails and remote=works), but called from the same local place, and getting a different result :) To put this another way, it's as if Revive is saying: "I'll deliver you an ad asynchronously, but only if you are on the same server as me." This is clearly unlikely for affiliate websites. If it's an apache issue (for instance), you'd expect no ads to be delivered. I'm sure someone with a grip on the Revive asyncjs.php code itself has a better idea of what is going on here...

hi Luna, I was looking at the source from your page http://www.onlinecasinoselite.com/test2.php and I don't know if this has anything to do with your issue, but your paths are different between the two revive calls: http://www.onlinecasinoselite.com/rv-ads/www/delivery/spcjs.php?id=1&block=1&charset=UTF-8 http://www.onlinecasinoselite.com/web/rv-ads/www/delivery/asyncjs.php Note the "/rv-ads/... and /web/rv-ads/... This may not be the problem, but it might be something to look into? Having said that, now asyncjs.php is not working for me either, thankfully there are 2 other methods to get the ads: SPC + JS :\

A premium rate, that's a fine idea :)

I'm not seeing this behaviour with multiple asynchronous tags on a single page, also using Firefox. No problems seen at all (just FYI).

I'd just like to interject here that I have Revive pointing asynchronous ads at many different websites, including phpFox and WordPress sites. No problems and much kudos to the team who build and maintain this excellent software. as a footnote, I did have a red-herring issue with the asynchronous delivery when my DNS was not working as it should. When the DNS was fixed, Revive delivered the asynchronous ads just fine. Just FYI and HTH.

If you mean "how can I deliver a Revive advert/banner into a WordPress site", then you just use the Invocation Code. If you mean something else, you'll have to be more specific...

In relation to recent posts with regard to available plugins for Revive Adserver. Please note the use of the word "PLUGIN"! A real plugin will use Revive's plugin process and will *never* request you to update files manually, and *never* copy over existing core Revive files, and *never* in any way mess with the Revive installation, except using the standard INSTALL and UPDATE procedures or the existing plugin process. As far as I'm aware, there are only two (2) sites where true plugins for Revive are available. One is Matteo and Erik's at http://www.adserverplugins.com/ and the other is (full disclosure) my own at: http://plugins.rfi.net Please feel free to add further fully conformant plugin sites, if you know of any, in replies to this forum topic.

You might want to provide some details, like which version, running on what system, and explain a little more as to what exactly "try to install" means... (otherwise people have to guess...)

Reality check! Good news :)

when you say "100% correct", it might be an idea to post a screenshot of the file permissions, so that people (admins) can have an opportunity to suggest alternative possible reasons for failure. "It doesn't work" and "as it should" also doesn't help diagnose the problem, at all. The more information you can dig out, for people to look at, the more likely it is that someone can help you. NB. this is just a suggestion as more info. is always better than less...

When this dedicated corner goes live, you can add this active Revive plugin developer (RFI) to your list too: http://plugins.rfi.net/ Any time, cheers!

You may be able to get that effect with a javascript function which sleeps for a while, and then refreshes the element via AJAX.

That's a good start, at this point at least it looks very likely that the problem is *therefore* in the WordPress set up, and (as I'm sure someone else will very soon point out), this is a Revive support forum... Having said that, I'd suggest experimenting with various *tiny* snippets of HTML, PHP and javascript, until you can identify which bit is "not working". I know this is probably not the fix/suggestion you were probably hoping for...