OpenX and My Own Stupidity
Within the product I work on we use OpenAds, which has been renamed to OpenX. Apparently OpenAds may have been somewhat of a pain to get installed since everyone cringed when I suggested we should make a test server for our ads. Since I'm always a fan of the latest and greatest, I decided to install OpenX 2.6.0 in a VM and see what the differences were. The great news is that it was a breeze to install and whatever was changed doesn't affect our product at all.
The really odd thing was that once I got it installed I couldn't see any images from its admin web site in Firefox (but I could in Internet Explorer). I searched around and found out from the internet just how stupid I am. I was trying to see images on an internally deployed online advertising server while I had AdBlock installed. The sad thing is this isn't the first time something like this has happened to me. Perhaps the third time will be the charm.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:14 am
Hi Robert,
Rest assured you're not the first to do that (and, sadly, I doubt you'll be the last either). I know a couple of examples where the OpenX team has ended up chasing it's tail for the same reasons!!!
AdBlock was a particular pain before we renamed from Openads to OpenX since we had 'ads' in the domain :-)
cheers, Oliver
August 5th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Well that makes me not feel so bad. My other recent "gotcha" with OpenX was figuring out how to clear the cache. I'd created an ad with an image that wasn't scaled down so it was taking over all of the real estate in our desktop app. After fixing the sizing, it took a little research to find out that I had to remove the offender from the cache directory. I blame myself for that one since in all honesty I haven't read the docs very closely.