Total Noob Here.. Revive Installation Problem

[joe80]

***UPDATE***  MOVING THIS TO  MANAGE REVIVE ADSERVER SECTION.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hi total noob represent

 

i have to install an openx adserver.  this is my first time and i don't know how to do it.  and while i was browsing and trying to get info - i found revive.

 

my question

 

1. are they basically same thing?  any advantages of revive?

2. i was told to use openx - does it matter if i go with revive?

3. i'm having a trouble with openx   -  http://goo.gl/zObjr2    why i don't see the registration page?   i was following this  http://docs.nexcess.net/article/installing-openx-ad-server.html

4. should i just ditch the openx and go with revive?

 

 

help!   need to get this done by tuesday!   thx in advance!

[Ilya Ber]

Revive Adserver is a fork of OpenX Source. OpenX Source is no longer developed. Essentially, for your purposes, they are the same. Switch over now and never look back!

[joe80]

thx! Revive it is!  

[joe80]

hm....

 

i'm having this message

You don't have permission to access /revive/www/admin/install.php on this server.

 

http://goo.gl/ZXf1yD

 

i changed file permission to 777.

 

 

i also had a same exact problem with installing openx. that's why i started to look for another ad server...   any ideas why i'm having this issue?

[Ilya Ber]

Have you tried looking inside your web server's error logs?

[joe80]

hm.. how do i do that?

[joe80]

it works with my other websites(different server).  i think something is wrong with the web hosting company i'm with.  i decided to switch to media temple.   will ask more questions after the move.   

[joe80]

ok, I successfully migrated the website to a new host - Media Temple. 

 

 

 

but...

 

I still get the same error message.

http://goo.gl/I3Shba

 

 

 so i contacted media temple and asked if they can help me.  

 

this is what they wrote back to me

 

 

It appears as though there is an application level error taking place when the admin area is loaded. The file failing to complete is on this path:

 

/home/183829/domains/coolspaces DOT tv/html/adserver/www/admin/install.php

 

The error I am seeing is as follows:

 

Revive Adserver was called via the command line, but had no host as a parameter.

 

You can take a look at the error logs on the server to get more information on this issue. The logs have yet to be enabled on this server, so I turned them on for you. They will now start recording data about this issue. 

 

 

ok, so what am i doing wrong?  i have no idea how to fix this... please help!! thx in advance! 

[joe80]

anybody?

[max]

 

 

 so i contacted media temple and asked if they can help me.  

 

this is what they wrote back to me

 

 

 

ok, so what am i doing wrong?  i have no idea how to fix this... please help!! thx in advance! 

 

 

same issue here , but with maintenance script being run with cronjob

any idea?

[mlowens]

 

Revive Adserver was called via the command line, but had no host as a parameter.

 

I just ran into this issue after upgrading from an earlier version of Revive. You have to pass a hostname as an additional parameter when you're calling the script from the command line. If you have this set up as a cron job, you need to change it there.

 

So, change this:

php /path/to/revive/maintenance/maintenance.php

 

To this:

php /path/to/revive/maintenance/maintenance.php localhost

 

There was apparently a bug in earlier versions that allowed you to call the script without the hostname parameter, which I didn't realize when I originally set up the cron. It was tricky to track down because there were no errors in debug.log.