Now that I have developed a html archive for my phpbb forums, I am now running into problems trying to validate the co-op as it's trying to validate on the html archive pages. The phpbb archive is in a different directory to the forums ie. http://www.domain.com/forum/archive so I initially figured this would never be a problem as the co-op would only try and validate for indexed pages in the main forum directory, but this isnt so. I keep trying to revalidate but I am constantly getting the validation error, for some reason it only ever attempts to validate the archive pages even though the base URL for the forum specified is http://www.domain.com/forum. Has anyone else run into this problem?
I don't claim to know much about html archives for phpbb, but the first thing to ask is if the pages in question are .html, have you set up the correct version of the co-op code on the those pages? If you were using the same code as for the phpbb pages, it might cause a problem. Maybe you've thought of this already, if so the problem lies elsewhere and I won't pretend I know the answer ...
Thanks for your response. I haven't actually attempted to run co-op ads on the archive pages. For now, all I am trying to figure out is why its trying to validate ads in a sub-directory to the forums? The way I assumed the co-op worked was that it attempts to validate indexed pages in a particular directory (ie. the base URL directory you provide in the config) The archive pages are stored in the /forum/archive directory so why is the coop even looking at these pages? Was I wrong in assuming this? Does the co-op try and validate on all sub-directories/pages below the base URL directory you specify?
I presume that the validation process follows any and all available links within the domain (similar to a SE spider), so if the pages you speak about are accessible through a link from elsewhere on the site, I guess it will check the pages concerned.