[Requesting Ads By Ad Theme Or Classification]

You can use "Site-Variable" limitations for this. Pass the variable along with value and target banner accordingly. 

 

If you pass the value on URL and you can use "Site-Page URL" limitation.  

[Need Help Getting First Banners On My Site And Making Geo Targeting?]

You have to enable "Geo-Targeting" from administrator section. Configuration --> Geotargeting Settings , here you need to choose Module type as "Maxmind GeoIP" and click the save changes button. 

 

And in every banner, delivery options you will get limitation option to choose country and deliver the ads. 

[Restore Missing Stats.]

If there is value available of missed hour statistics records on theses tables "data_bkt_m, data_bkt_c, data_bkt_a" then can write scripts to migrate to the summary table which will display on UI statistics page. There is no data available on these tables in those hours, then records should migrated. 

[Displaying Banners Based On Keywords In A User's Search Search String]

If you want to use "Site-Variable" limitations then need to pass that variable with value on "Invocation Tags".

 

Like :  document.write ('&test=1');  after the line "document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);".

 

Also you can use "Site-Page URL" limitations, there choose "Contains" option enter keyword. It will work, banner will be deliver based on this.

[Sponsor Logos In A Wordpress Site]

Hi, 

 

Normally create banners and zones link together, copy the invocation tags and place it on text widget to show the ads. Or else use OpenX WordPress Widget plugin to deliver ads.

[Broken: Click Counts/delivery]

Hi, 

 

Clicks also should work if impressions stores without any issues if we didn't made any changes on revive adserver.

Please check this settings need to be checked "Log a click every time a viewer clicks on a banner", from Configuration --> Banner Logging Settings page from administrator screen. 

[User Privileges]

This feature is not available in revive adserver by default, but it can be scripted if we need. By doing customization can get achieve this, but need to be careful at the time of upgrade of adserver to latest version. 

[Select Advertiser Dropdown Does Not Show The List Of Advertisers In "linked Banners" Tab]

Hi, 

 

It should work. limitation for linking between banners and zones are size and types. In your case it should shown to link. Please confirm me whether you use different account to create zones and banners? means using multiple manager account? 

[Upgrading To Revive Adserver 3.0.2 - Permission Error]

Hi, 

 

If we change permissions via FTP or cPanel, it will not affect correct permissions. Instead of this, we need to do via SSH (PUTTY Shell access). Execute command of which directory not in right permissions. Ex : chmod -R a+w www/images

 

This will give solution for permission issues.

[Select Advertiser Dropdown Does Not Show The List Of Advertisers In "linked Banners" Tab]

Hi, 

 

Check both banner and zone resolution and these two should be same then only you can link together. 

[How Do I Display Banner Preview On Advertiser Inventory Page?]

Hi, 

 

Revive latest version 3.1.0 has released, and it has feature to list 'banners' on banners list page, i.e advertiser > campaign > banners page.

 

If you are using old revive adserver, try to upgrade to latest version. Its preferable to use latest version always, because it has some new features and enhancement and also contains security fixes too.

[Show Only Stats To Advertiser Or Not Allow Banner Preference Changes?]

Hi, 

 

To do this you need to change the scripts on this file. but keep this changes in mind while the upgrade time. Open the file '' and go to line no 25, you will see permissions added for admin, manager, advertiser and publisher users for this file. Just remove the "OA_ACCOUNT_ADVERTISER" from that line. 

 

Original : OA_Permission::enforceAccount(OA_ACCOUNT_ADMIN, OA_ACCOUNT_MANAGER, OA_ACCOUNT_ADVERTISER, OA_ACCOUNT_TRAFFICKER);

 

After change it should be like this : OA_Permission::enforceAccount(OA_ACCOUNT_ADMIN, OA_ACCOUNT_MANAGER,  OA_ACCOUNT_TRAFFICKER);

 

 

 

When advertiser trying to access this page and they will redirected dashboard page with 'access denied permissions' error message. 

[Invocation Drop Down Not Showing]

Hi, 

 

Seems, Its already installed. Please refresh the page once again check if not available, try to install. 

[Video Ads]

Hi, 

 

You can check this plugin http://www.reviveadserverservices.com/product/html5-video-audio-ads-plugin, it provide features to upload video as advertisement(banner) as like uploading image banners. So you can upload your original video as banner and deliver on web pages. But this plugin will not provide feature like pre/mid/post roll ad type of video ads. 

[Link Ads To Categories And Posts Within]

Hi, 

 

Target banners based on the site URL. There is delivery limitation available as "Site - Page URL", select that and add the any specific keyword from URL or entire URL. Set this limitations for all the banners which you want to target. 

[Invocation Drop Down Not Showing]

Hi, 

 

Login as administrator and click "Plugins" tab, then check whether "Invocation Tags Plugin" plugin installed / enabled or not. If not enabled, click "Enable" link and that's it. 

 

It plugin not installed, you can install "openXInvocationTags" plugin from "/etc/plugins" of your adserver directory. 

[Clicks On Generic Html Banner Not Tracked]

Hi, 

 

The code already contains destination link inside itself, so our adserver click file will not call for store clicks. That's why you able to see only click as 0.

[Zone 0]

Hi, 

 

Might be used "Direct Selection Invocation Tags" for banner delivery. In this case, always zoneid will be 0.

[How Advertiser Know The Number Of Impressions Made By Publisher]

Hi, 

 

Administrator / Manager can create users for all publisher and advertiser. To create user for publisher, Edit Publisher --> Click User Access, Click "Action", Click "Add User", fill the credentials and details.

 

Share the credentials with publisher, they can login and check the impressions, clicks, CTR and revenue generated by their webpages. 

[Report Breakdown By Country And City]

Hi, 

 

There is no default feature available on your needs. Free plugin available as "openXLogCountry", which used to store clicks and impressions with banner and zone details. If you know scripting, you can write script to get statistics from this table. 

[Not Working - Invocation Code Errors Out]

Hi, 

 

Mostly for files need to set the '644' permissions. Try to change and test it. Still if not works, contact with hosting tech people for the support, because its purely related problem with server and permissions. 

[Not Working - Invocation Code Errors Out]

Hi, 

 

You can rename the the path, but need to set exact permission for that directory as '755'. The error seems to be happen belongs to wrong permission for the path.

[Google Map Chart Statistics Displaying Impressions/clicks From Random Countries?]

Hi,

 

Could you please explain still more elaborate clearly about the problem? Normally "openXLogCountry" plugin will store impressions, clicks based on the country from which banner delivered on table. Those details will be shown in statistics page. 

 

You mean here, country details storing as wrong one? 

[My Ads Server Crashed - Redirecting To Install.php]

Hi, 

 

Check the configuration file on "/var/" directory. In that check webpath and webdir value, it should get correct path of your server.

[Upgrade Instructions And Security With 777 Folders]

Hi, 

 

While upgrade adserver only needed "777" permission, Once completed the upgrade then change permission as '755' for directories and '644' for files. Permission may differ based on the server.