OpenX Tips

If you are running OpenX 2.8.0 or greater, and you upgrade, you will now be asked for the path to the old OpenX ad server installation directory. This is so that OpenX can copy over the files from the plugins that you had installed in your previous installation¹.

This means there are two things you must now remember to do when upgrading your OpenX ad server:

1. You must remember to keep a copy of your old OpenX ad server installation code on your server, so that you can specify its location when upgrading; and
2. You must know how to specify the location of your old OpenX ad server installation, when performing the upgrade.

The correct format for the path to your old OpenX ad server installation is to use the full directory path. For example, if you were upgrading to OpenX 2.8.3 from OpenX 2.8.2, and you have your previous OpenX 2.8.2 code directory in “/var/www/html/openx-2.8.2/”, then this would be the full directory path that you specify during the upgrade.

Specifying the full path to the previous OpenX installation.

1. For example, you may have the excellent OpenX Statistics as Graphs plugin installed [↩]