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How to upgrade an OpenX server from the 2.6.x installation instructions to version 2.8.x.

Backup your existing database and OpenX installation.
Download the latest version of OpenX:

cd /extra/src wget http://download.openx.org/openx-2.8.0.tar.gz tar zxf openx-2.8.0.tar.gz mv openx-2.8.0 /var/websites/ads.example.com/htdocs/ cd /var/websites/ads.example.com/htdocs chown -R nobody:nobody openx-2.8.0
Copy the configuration file from the current version (2.6.x) to the /var directory of the new version (2.8.0):

cp openx-2.6.4/var/ads.example.com.conf.php openx-2.8.0/var/
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.
Adjust your Apache VirtualHost directive to point to the new OpenX version (/usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Restart Apache
With your web browser, load your OpenX site (ex. http://ads.example.com) to and follow the instructions of the upgrade wizard.

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