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How to upgrade an OpenX server.

  1. Backup your existing database and OpenX installation.
  2. Download the latest version of OpenX:
    cd /extra/src
    wget http://download.openx.org/openx-2.8.7.tar.gz
    tar zxf openx-2.8.7.tar.gz
    mv openx-2.8.7 /var/websites/ads.example.com/htdocs/
    cd /var/websites/ads.example.com/htdocs
    chown -R nobody:nobody openx-2.8.7
  3. Copy the configuration file from the current version to the /var directory of the new version:
    cp openx-2.8.5/var/ads.example.com.conf.php openx-2.8.7/var/
  4. Copy your banner images from the old version's www/images to the new version. My install didn't have any ads in there - yours might.
  5. Adjust your Apache VirtualHost directive to point to the new OpenX version (/usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
  6. Restart Apache
  7. With your web browser, load your OpenX site (ex. http://ads.example.com) to and follow the instructions of the upgrade wizard.