VB multi ads problem

[Fishing Forum]

Well got the five ads running pressed Auto Validate Now

Got

Site failed automatic validation as of 2004-10-06 (make sure URL and site type is correct - if everything is correct, it may require manual validation). Auto Validate Now

Any ideas - as I have not changed anything bar what was asked

Plus down to 62 :eek:

[nadlay]

I also have problems.

Have the following three problems.

1. When I did auto-validate, my weight dropped by over 50%

2. Main Forum only shows a single ad.

3. Archive pages give the following errors:-

Warning: main(../ad_network.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/stratoss/public_html/forum/archive/index.php on line 281

Warning: main(): Failed opening '../ad_network.php' for inclusion (include_path='/usr/local/lib/php:.') in /home/stratoss/public_html/forum/archive/index.php on line 281

[Fishing Forum]

Had the same problem but had forgton to

Create an empty file named ad_network_ads.txt in the same directory. The web server user should have write permissions to this file. An easy way to set the permissions would be with the following command:
chmod 777 ad_network_ads.txt

Might be an idea to check it again - i.e prop 777

Plus did you repeat the include script

As for the archive have the same problem still trying to get theat one working

When I did auto-validate, my weight dropped by over 50%
Luck me about - 95%

But Im sure shawn will help

[nadlay]

I had forgot to add the extra includes in PHPINCLUDE_START. (Thanks Fishing Forum)

Now that I've done that:-

1. My weight went down more.

2. I now show 5 ads on the forum.

3. I still have the errors in the archive.

4. Account now claims that it fails auto-validation (as per Fishing Forum)

Look forward to Shawn's input.

[nadlay]

Just thought I would have another go at auto-validate, and it say that ads are working on my site, and my weight has gone up again - it's now above what I originally had before I started adding the multiple ads.

Fishing Forum - maybe you should just try auto-validating again.

Still have problem in Archive though.

[Fishing Forum]

Yep just tried and getting the same

Account not not yet activated. | Site failed automatic validation as of 2004-10-06 (make sure URL and site type is correct - if everything is correct, it may require manual validation). Auto Validate Now

But change my url address and it went up just above what I had before

Do not understand wy I should alter my org url
was www .xxx. com/forum.php changed it to www. xxx. com and it worked a bit better

Think I will wait for shawn

Oh archieve still no joy

[digitalpoint]

For fishing forum, set your base URL to http://www.fishing-forum.info/, rather than http://www.fishing-forum.info/forum.php because forum.php isn't in the URL of all your forum pages.

For the archive, I figured it out... it didn't like specifying the path (I guess vBulletin does it internally already). So if you change this:

include ('../ad_network.php');to thisinclude ('ad_network.php');
it should be fine.

[nadlay]

For the archive, I figured it out... it didn't like specifying the path (I guess vBulletin does it internally already). So if you change this:

include ('../ad_network.php');to thisinclude ('ad_network.php');
it should be fine.


Thanks, Shawn, that sorts my archive out.

I now have 5 ads on the forum and 5 ads on the archive. Do I need to revalidate somehow?

[digitalpoint]

What's your site URL?

[nadlay]

Site is Stratos (http://www.stratossupersite.com/forum/)

[digitalpoint]

It already was validated... The main reason the weight isn't "super high" is Google has not picked up much of the forum yet:

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:www.stratossupersite.com/forum/+site:www.stratossupersite.com

That's one of the reasons (there are a few other reasons too) that I'm switching how the vBulletin way works. The network originally was for vB forums only, but as things progressed, the way that all other site types were assigned a weight is more accurate. All the vBulletin 3.x forums are going to be forced to move over to the new system to keep it fair for everyone.

[nadlay]

I was actually thinking about that earlier today, because, effectively, I am only getting credit for the forum directory downwards, and I have a lot of indexed pages on the main site where I would also place the ads.

By that do you mean that VB sites will move to be like "any site that supports PHP"?

So I would place ads on all the other pages, and then change the type to "any site that supports PHP"?

It's only a hobby site, but maybe I should consider using some of my weight to get it some more links.

[digitalpoint]

Yep... you can do that... since the forum is within your URL, you would want to leave those ads, but you could change your base URL to be the root of the domain, change the site type to "Other", put the ads on the rest of the site and you would get credit for both the site and the forum (since it's within the site).

[Fishing Forum]

Thanks Shaun

Did changes and now have good figure

Still getting this message though

Account not not yet activated. | Site failed automatic validation as of 2004-10-06 (make sure URL and site type is correct - if everything is correct, it may require manual validation). Auto Validate Now

If I close my eyes and count to 100 hopefully it will go away

[digitalpoint]

It doesn't look like you are running ads on the main page: http://www.fishing-forum.info/

I don't know anything about the hack you are running to do it though, but it shouldn't be too difficult to add.

[Fishing Forum]

All sorted thanks again shawn - ow you another beer :rolleyes:

[GuyFromChicago]

Fishing Forum, I noticed your view single post mode is giving an error message now. Maybe check out that SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST template.

[digitalpoint]

What did you put in the single post view mode?

[Fishing Forum]

Cheers guys

I did not put it in there its from when I had it set up for the old system on vb

left the code in there

[Fishing Forum]

Sorted thanks guys

Remember to remove old code from templete :rolleyes:

[GuyFromChicago]

Sorted thanks guys

Remember to remove old code from templete :rolleyes:

I had left it in and in the place where the ad use to be (single post mode) it said "array". Pulled out the old code and everything worked great.