Validation failed but ads are showing

Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005.

0
  1. #1
    One of my sites - www.ezcreditoffers.com - won't validate. But the ads are showing up on the site. I get the message "Account not not yet activated. | Site failed automatic validation as of 2005-09-28" when I try to validate/calculate weight.

    I poked around in this forum, looked at a bunch of threads but none of what I found appeared to apply... Any ideas?
     
    mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #2
    You can't modify the output of the ads.

    Revert to the default ad_network PHP file, and you should be fine.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  3. mikelbeck

    mikelbeck Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    790
    Likes Received:
    19
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    108
    #3
    It is the default, I even pulled the latest copy about 10 minutes ago just to be sure (ad_network_393.php).
     
    mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #4
    Oops, I was looking at the wrong thing. But it does look like your pages might be generated as static HTML files on the server. Is that the case?
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  5. mikelbeck

    mikelbeck Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    790
    Likes Received:
    19
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    108
    #5
    No, they're PHP but have been mod_rewrite'd to show as an HTML page. Could that be causing this?
     
    mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  6. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #6
    Well something seems to be weird with how it sees the $_SERVER variables then because for one it's showing the validator the impression tracking pixel (which it shouldn't be since it's user agent doesn't match).

    Add this to the end of your ad_network PHP File (before the closing tags):

    echo '<!-- ' . $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . ' - ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . ' -->';
    PHP:
    Then we can see what's seeing as the user agent/IP address.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  7. mikelbeck

    mikelbeck Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    790
    Likes Received:
    19
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    108
    #7
    Done. It shows this (for me, anyway):

    
<!-- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) - my.ip.address.here -->
    Code (markup):
    After adding that I'm able to validate the site. I took it out and I'm still able to validate the site.

    Did you change something?
     
    mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  8. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #8
    Nope, nothing changed on this end.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  9. mikelbeck

    mikelbeck Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    790
    Likes Received:
    19
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    108
    #9
    Validation stopped working again. This is odd.
     
    mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  10. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #10
    I don't see the code you added anywhere.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  11. mikelbeck

    mikelbeck Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    790
    Likes Received:
    19
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    108
    #11
    It's back in, now. I'll leave it until we get this sorted out.
     
    mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  12. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #12
    Hmmm... still not showing for me.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  13. mikelbeck

    mikelbeck Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    790
    Likes Received:
    19
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    108
    #13
    Drupal (which that site was created with) has a caching system... I disabled the cache, tried to validate and it worked. I enabled the cache again, and it seems the site validates just fine, now.

    I'm going to check it again later on to see if it stops working (again).
     
    mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  14. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #14
    I suspect it will cause problems for you in the future with the caching system.
     
    digitalpoint, Sep 28, 2005 IP
  15. mikelbeck

    mikelbeck Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    790
    Likes Received:
    19
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    108
    #15
    I'm thinking the same thing... I'll keep an eye on it, if it seems to be causing problems I'll have to disable it.

    Thanks for the help!
     
    mikelbeck, Sep 28, 2005 IP