Comments on: Open Source Ad Server Roundup

By: Jeff J

Jeff J — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:27:06 +0000

Openx is scary to say the least. Even though you may disable all hook to their network the code is still there and hackers constantly hack their software to send exploitive code to your websites. We have two high volume forums and hackers have hacked openx (not on our site) but the openx network and have brute forced through their virus infected ads to the unsuspecting users of OpenX. I’ve used it for year but can no longer afford to allow their vulnerabilities to infect users of our forums.

By: heather penters

heather penters — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:59:15 +0000

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By: OpenX developer

OpenX developer — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:39:35 +0000

For those getting the redirecting loop :
If you have OpenX running on the same server as your website,
open the admin console in a different browser (e.g IE) than your website with ads (e.g. Firefox).
OpenX uses the same OAID cookie for both and this causes the infinite redirect loop.
You can also throw away your cookies to fix it but then you will need to log in again every time it happens.

By: moore

moore — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:10:43 +0000

At the risk of being a google fanboi, I would also recommend taking a look at Google Ad Manager, which used to be Doubleclick. http://www.google.com/admanager/

By: Robert M Glynn

Robert M Glynn — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:06:20 +0000

Good article. The conclusion (including the comments) seems to be the one I didn’t want to hear. For those caught between AdSense and a commercial ad server: Roll your own.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:05:31 +0000

Last year I was confronted with a clients report on clickrates and those differed from what I was reporting them (client: 200 and mine: 900)
I was able to track this down to be a fault in OpenX. Took me some time to explain this… so better cross-check OpenX results every now and then!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:12:19 +0000

Aaron, with all due respect, go [editor: expletive deleted] yourself. I’m a competent sys admin and I can’t install openx without getting a redirect loop at login. Permissions, database, everything is as it should be, and still no dice. This is openx’s fault.

By: David

David — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:31:53 +0000

If you need an easy to use alternative to OpenX, check out Trafficspaces.
It takes away a lot of the OpenX headaches.

See screenshots – http://www.trafficspaces.com/tour/

By: xxxx

xxxx — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:34:08 +0000

Open X f-ing SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:58:16 +0000

I was able to get OpenX setup and running fairly easily. There was a few minor hiccups but that’s ok. The main issue I’ve encountered is with their xmlrpc api. We’re wanting to build our own front-end for OpenX in our existing application and only expose the functionality we need. I’ve been playing around with the API for the past couple of days and was satisfied until I attempted to upload a banner image using it. That’s when the trouble started. There appears to be a bug in the API that won’t recognize the base64 encoded image data in the XML post.

After searching online for a solution, I discovered that several other people have encountered this problem and that there is a bug filed in OpenX’s JIRA relating to the issue. It was initially reported over a year ago and is still marked as “unverified”. Posting to their community forum isn’t much help either as it seems the developers rarely go to the forum to answer questions.