Comments on: Tip #17: Moving OpenX

By: theguru

theguru — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:00:12 +0000

Hi Desmond,

It sounds to me that the most likely cause is that the banners are not actually stored in the OpenX database, but are stored on disk, and have not been moved across. I would double-check to see if is the case as a first step!

By: Desmond

Desmond — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:47:57 +0000

Hi,

I moved the adserver to the new domain, everything seems to be working except the delivery. The images are not showing up. Alt Tags are visible. What could be the cause for this? We stored all the images in mySQL earlier.

By: theguru

theguru — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:55:20 +0000

If you are reading the above comments, and you're wondering about the "webDir" setting, and why it is not based on the MAX_PATH settings, please have a look at Tip #5!

By: Hunter

Hunter — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:44:43 +0000

Never mind, I found the variable “webDir” in openx/var/domain.com.conf.php and changed it appropriately.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:30:54 +0000

I moved the install as described and it is serving banners as expected. When I try to administer it I get the following error. The first lines represent the new and correct path of the current (new) host. The last line is the path used in the old host. I can’t find a config file to change that, I assumed all paths were based on the MAX_PATH variable.

/home3/organij9/public_html/torchlightdirectory/openx/var => OK
/home3/organij9/public_html/torchlightdirectory/openx/var/cache => OK
/home3/organij9/public_html/torchlightdirectory/openx/var/plugins => OK
/home3/organij9/public_html/torchlightdirectory/openx/var/plugins/cache => OK
/home3/organij9/public_html/torchlightdirectory/openx/var/plugins/config => OK
/home3/organij9/public_html/torchlightdirectory/openx/var/templates_compiled => OK
/home/torchlig/public_html/openx/www/images => NOT writeable
^^^^^^^^^^^^
this path is the old host directory structure

By: theguru

theguru — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:22:54 +0000

Hi Mikey,

You don’t need to change the webDir setting if you are moving a server — so long as you keep the same directory structure on the new server! Of course, if you are changing directory structure at the same time, then yes, this setting may need to be changed, depending on your OpenX configuration…

By: Mikey

Mikey — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:31:20 +0000

Don’t forget to change the information at “webDir=” in the [store] section. Other than that, Thank you for the excellent write-up!

By: Tabrez

Tabrez — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:47:40 +0000

Thank you for this post. This helped us troubleshoot a problem we were having.