Upgrading From OpenX to Revive Adserver Is a Minor Upgrade

We have recently gotten a number of questions about how much disruption upgrading from OpenX to the new Revive Adserver causes and as other undoubtedly have the same questions we wanted to address those for a wider audience. The good news is that the upgrade should be seamless in most instances. While the software has new name – due to ownership of the software being transferred – and a jump in version number from 2.8 to 3.0, the changes so far have been under the hood. This means that you won’t have to make changes to zones, campaigns, banners, ad positions, etc.

Two of the releases of Revive Adserver (3.0.0 and 3.0.2) have fixed security vulnerabilities that could lead to the ad server being hacked, so if you haven’t upgrading yet you should do that as soon as possible. There have also been bug fixes and modernization, including support for PHP 5.4 and 5.5, included in the new versions so far.

If you have previously done an upgrade between versions of OpenX 2.8 then you should find the process to be the same when upgrading to Revive Adserver.

So far the only issue we have run in to with the upgrade is that in one instance the upgrade failed to remove the OpenX Market plugin, which had been deprecated. The failure to remove that caused the admin interface to not work due to a Failed Opening Required error for the file /lib/ox/m2M/xmlrpcexecutor.php. If that occurs you can delete the /www/admin/plugins/oxMarket/ directory allowing access to the admin interface where you can fully remove the plugin and the openXWorkflow plugin, which should also have been removed.

If you are looking for someone to handle the upgrade for you, we can do a one-time upgrade for you or we can handle upgrades on an ongoing basis for you (insuring that you always get security fixes applied within a day of their release).