Comments on: How To Install OpenX On HostGator Account (Video)

By: Stephane Brault

Stephane Brault — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:06:54 +0000

Thank you for your tips Oikos. Although I disagree with the third point you make.

For instance, using the local invocation code on a Wordpress blog will break your website if Wordpress and OpenX do not share the same database.

Personnally I’ve always used the Javascript and iframe code and it never slowed down my sites.

Another website I own (HomeMusician.net) has 12,000 uniques a day and using the Javascript invocation code doesn’t slow it down a bit.

By: Oikos

Oikos — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:34:05 +0000

Thanks for your video tutorial.
I have followed to the T and my site is running with OpenX.
Just a few points that I found from my experience:
1. NEVER use special characters for the Database Password (,+,-…,etc.). You have to use numbers and lower case letters (0-9, a-z) ONLY.
Otherwise you will spend hours trying to fix rare error messages in the installation…
2. The Banner Size SHOULD MATCH with the Zone Ads Size, otherwise you will never find how to link them, and again, you will spend hours trying to find out why.
3. If your serviced ad site is in the same hosting server as your OpenX installation, then use ONLY Local Mode Zone Invocation Tag. Don’t use JavaScript as shown in the video
Otherwise your will have a long delay time loading your webpages.

Regards,
Oikos Nomos.

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