won't validate

http://www.thpsforums.com/forum/ won't validate even though ads are there and google cache shows ads as well. Can you take a look why ?

 

did u get any error msg when u click the validate link?

 

"Ads not found on http://www.thpsforums.com/forum/"


That's all I get

 

then there are no ads there.

where are the ads exactly? i dont see it. except for a few links on the bottom of the page.

u sure u put the codes correctly?

 

Those links on the bottom are ads. I chose the link only when setting this up and it worked perfect untill about 3 days ago.

 

Shawn, could you take a look at it ?

 

looks like they are working to me. Can you try and revalidate again?

 

Still same thing:

"Ads not found on http://www.thpsforums.com/forum/"

They are being shown correctly and
"cache:http://www.thpsforums.com/forum/" on google shows them too with a date of Dec 26th.

As far as I see everything is correct but it still won't validate

 

No i meant on co-op end since everything on my end is correct and ads show up correctly and google cached them too but co-op still says no ads found.
As I wrote, this has been working for a while and nothing changed on my end and on Jan 5th auto-validation failed and since them I haven't been able to validate so my theory is that it would have to be a bug in validation process.

 

Done, also cleared the link txt file. Still no go.....

 

You want specifics or the whole array ?

 

Here it is:

Array
(
[DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /home/thpsforums/public_html
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
[HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET] => ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
[HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip,deflate
[HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-us,en;q=0.5
[HTTP_CONNECTION] => keep-alive
[HTTP_COOKIE] => AWSSESSION_ID=awssession_id1105064039001r8607; AWSUSER_ID=awsuser_id1104810224931r5928;
[HTTP_HOST] => www.thpsforums.com
[HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE] => 300
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
[PATH] => /bin:/usr/bin
[REMOTE_ADDR] => 204.8.216.100
[REMOTE_PORT] => 1940
[SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /home/thpsforums/public_html/t.php
[SCRIPT_URI] => http://www.thpsforums.com/t.php
[SCRIPT_URL] => /t.php
[SERVER_ADDR] => 204.8.216.80
[SERVER_ADMIN] =>
[SERVER_NAME] => www.thpsforums.com
[SERVER_PORT] => 80
[SERVER_SIGNATURE] =>
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.thpsforums.com Port 80


[SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.8 mod_perl/1.29 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
[UNIQUE_ID] => Qd3@XMwI2EIAAG0qUE8
[GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1
[SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1
[REQUEST_METHOD] => GET
[QUERY_STRING] =>
[REQUEST_URI] => /t.php
[SCRIPT_NAME] => /t.php
[PATH_TRANSLATED] => /home/thpsforums/public_html/t.php
[PHP_SELF] => /t.php
[argv] => Array
(
)

[argc] => 0
)

 

ok I found a reason now. This website is globaly load balanced. Only one web server has ad_network.php and at the bottom of the file it prints 5 ads. This is being included on both servers therefore remote_addr will always be ip address of either server and not of co-op validation server. I have corrected it by forcing to include the class= part all the time and now the site valides.

Thank you for your help Shawn !!

 

Because the footer on both load balanced servers simple has:

include("http://<ip>/ad.php");

PHP:

and the ad.php file which is on a different staging server has:

echo $other_links . " | ";

include("ad_network_t.php");
echo $ad_network[0] . " | " .  $ad_network[1] . " | " . $ad_network[2] . " | " . $ad_network[3] . " | " . $ad_network[4];

PHP:

When I placed t.php to print the array the file was propagated to both servers and it showed correct remote_addr.
For now it validated when I forced it, but in the near future I'll have my webmaster modify the footer to include ad_network.php on both servers.