[GarethBurrows]

Hi,

We have just kicked off a forum and want to get some banner adverts in place. A quick search has brought me to this page which seems to tick all the boxes for what we want.

We are running VB 4.2.0 on xampp on a Windows 2008 R2 server

Are there any issues that we need to be aware of? The current skin is Modern Blue from PureVB which limits slots to 1 top banner and 1 footer banner and we have at least 12 advertisers lined up already.

Regards

Gareth

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by zackw

Still looking for information on my issue:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...postcount=2116

Why does the start and stop times auto-increment by an hour every time the banner is saved? This doesn't seem like a proper feature, I want to set the hour and minutes exactly the way I want, it doesn't make sense for the times to change on their own.

Thoughts?

This is a server issue, where the database server runs on a different time or time zone than the web server. Your hosting provider should really use NTP in order to keep the date/time aligned and use the same time zone on all servers.

We use this:

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[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by GarethBurrows

Hi,

We have just kicked off a forum and want to get some banner adverts in place. A quick search has brought me to this page which seems to tick all the boxes for what we want.

We are running VB 4.2.0 on xampp on a Windows 2008 R2 server

Are there any issues that we need to be aware of? The current skin is Modern Blue from PureVB which limits slots to 1 top banner and 1 footer banner and we have at least 12 advertisers lined up already.

Regards

Gareth

Just keep kickin'

Use one placeholder/location on top and footer and the 12 banners will rotate on that.

[fxdigi-cash]

I just installed the latest version of this mod on my vb.4.2, but get an error in the control panel says there is an error. The side menu disappear till I disable this mod...!!

any ideas??

Thanks in advance.

P.S: where do we place the Addon folder?? it could be the cause of this issue!

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by fxdigi-cash

I just installed the latest version of this mod on my vb.4.2, but get an error in the control panel says there is an error. The side menu disappear till I disable this mod...!!

any ideas??

Thanks in advance.

P.S: where do we place the Addon folder?? it could be the cause of this issue!

Please read the installing instructions. If you are new to vBulletin, you should first install other plugins and get used to the plugin system.

This product/plugin does nothing to your board, styles and whatsoever. After uploading make sure the uploaded files have the right permissions.

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

Please read the installing instructions. If you are new to vBulletin, you should first install other plugins and get used to the plugin system.

This product/plugin does nothing to your board, styles and whatsoever. After uploading make sure the uploaded files have the right permissions.

Thanks mate for the comments.

I will try installing previous versions first and see how things go.

Thanks again.

[fxdigi-cash]

BTW, where do I find the installing instructions?

what I did was uploading the files to my vb folder like: whatever inside upload folder uploaded to my vb folder. And then the addon folder to the vb root folder where it appears in the main folders' tree... is that correct?

[fxdigi-cash]

OK after installing all versions one by one, the mod works great. Thanks a lot.

[Gripi]

hi..

i hope in the next release, you put "Expired Time" list inside the banner list menu.

right now banner list menu already have "ID, Name, Position, Impressions, Clicks"

the purpose is, we dont need to open one by one just to check when the banner time expired.

thanks alot for this great addon

[licensinglinks]

I have recently installed Google AdSense. I notice that the impressions displayed in my AdSense account are significantly less (10 TIMES LESS!!!!) than the impressions the RBS is reporting.

In short, AdSense tells me I've only served a total of 128,000 ad impressions, but RBS tells me that I've delivered way over ONE MILLION ad impressions in total.

What's going on here, and how do I fix it??? Is RBS counting bots or something?

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by fxdigi-cash

BTW, where do I find the installing instructions?

what I did was uploading the files to my vb folder like: whatever inside upload folder uploaded to my vb folder. And then the addon folder to the vb root folder where it appears in the main folders' tree... is that correct?

The addon is an addon which contains special (and unsupported features) files normally not needed and thus not installed

The installation instructions are contained in the PDF file, which also informs about the features of this product.

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by licensinglinks

I have recently installed Google AdSense. I notice that the impressions displayed in my AdSense account are significantly less (10 TIMES LESS!!!!) than the impressions the RBS is reporting.

In short, AdSense tells me I've only served a total of 128,000 ad impressions, but RBS tells me that I've delivered way over ONE MILLION ad impressions in total.

What's going on here, and how do I fix it??? Is RBS counting bots or something?

There is no need to fix it. The Google AdSense counts are at most approximate, and will not consider some devices. Please make sure you understand what Google AdSense does and what not. It does not do quite a lot

RBS counts also half viewed pages where people are in too much hurry to wait and counts also all visits from spiders which eventually show banners. Google does exclude its own visits. So if your site is visited from more spiders than real visitors, the counts may seem exaggerated, but in fact, they are precise as a swiss clock.

[zackw]

Originally Posted by y2ksw

This is a server issue, where the database server runs on a different time or time zone than the web server. Your hosting provider should really use NTP in order to keep the date/time aligned and use the same time zone on all servers.

We use this:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

This makes sense, buy my server hosts both the MySQL and the forum. I mean, it's the same server, same user. I have a dedicated server for the forum and database.

Do I need to change the timezone in vBulletin itself, or in the MySQL server itself? Or in Apache? Or do I have to change settings in all of them to the same setting?

Thanks!

[y2ksw]

Originally Posted by zackw

This makes sense, buy my server hosts both the MySQL and the forum. I mean, it's the same server, same user. I have a dedicated server for the forum and database.

Do I need to change the timezone in vBulletin itself, or in the MySQL server itself? Or in Apache? Or do I have to change settings in all of them to the same setting?

Thanks!

It needs the MySQL Server and the server itself to run on the same timezone. Normally, this is automatic. If you have problems with DST or if the visitor time differs from your personal settings, you need to set the timezone of vbulletin, until these times match. If you have server access, the visitor time should match the date/time of the server's date command of the user who runs Apache.

Personally, I leave the DST settings of vbulletin alone (disabled), but change twice a year its timezone. Noticeably, the times in the MySQL records differ from the times I see in the Banner's ACP, but the banners show and hide correctly, and don't shift while saving.

[dreamygirl]

Thanks for this mod!

I have VB 4.2 with VBSEO.

When I put @vbbanners:0@ in my template, my test banner shows perfectly.

When I put @vbbanners:%d@ in my template, I see no banner, only the text is shown back to me: @vbbanners:%d@

Do you have advice to make %d work?