This adserver rotates banner ads between Adsense, LifeStreetmedia and others based on RPM. For Adsense and Lifestreetmedia, the RPM is automatically retrieved by the server using network APIs, for other networks you will have to edit the RPM yourself.
This adserver is for desktop sites and mobile web, not native mobile apps. Specifically, I use it on a Facebook app, which is also accessible outside of the Facebook frame once you're logged in via Facebook connect. It should also work fine on desktop or mobile web sites not using Facebook login. I also do mobile development, so maybe I will get around to building a native apps adserver in the future.
- Git clone the adserver code from Github
- Edit database/seeds/UserTableSeeder.php with your preferred email and password.
- Install PHP Composer
- php composer.phar install
- Install Laravel
- Create database
- Run php artisan migrate
- Run php artisan db:seed
- You should setup a new subdomain for this adserver, and point it to the public folder.
- Login with your email and password and setup your Google Client secrets, Google Account Info and LifeStreetMedia account info.
- Setup something like the following in cron (your path to artisan may vary): * * * * * php /var/www/html/adserver/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1
- After running the adserver for awhile, you may run into the problem with
zend_mm_heap corruptedin your PHP log file, and no adserver pages load properly. This problem is currently unsolved. See below for more info.
After awhile, I was getting the error: zend_mm_heap corrupted in my php error log and the page was blank. I tried a variety of things, I will go through them all here. I edited my php.ini to include:
opcache.enable_cli = 0
report_memleaks = Off
report_zend_debug = 0
Even then after awhile, with those settings, I was still getting that error. I then ran the command: export USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 (http://stackoverflow.com/a/10092026/211457)
Even then after awhile, I was still getting the eror. I hired getmyadmin.com to look into this and they added output_buffering = 8192 to php.ini and that fixed the problem for me for awhile.
I then noticed the problem again. I updated to the latest version of PHP and Centos and Laravel. The problem was still there sporadically. I opened my first PHP bug about this issue: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73598. This was thanks to this very helpful Stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2247977/what-does-zend-mm-heap-corrupted-mean/36350601#36350601
Note for developers: I have set debug to false in config/app.php so this is ready to go for production installs. If you wish to debug, set this value to true. Setting it to true may cause your database password to be exposed if a connection error occurs.
You can use Github issues for regular bugs and feature requests. For security issues or if you have any questions you don't want to discuss publicly you can email me: andy@greenrobot.com
Join the discussion on Facebook about GreenRobot Adserver: https://www.facebook.com/groups/greenrobotadserver/
If you are interested in me setting up a demo adserver on a server I control for you to evaluate please let me know.