Introduction

Now that you have successfully installed Openads, you can log
in to the Administrator interface using the credentials you specified during
installation. The Openads logo in the Administrator interface is loaded from
the Openads server. This means that you can be alerted to possible upgrades or
new releases in this space, or an updated logo can be added remotely, for
example.

If you specify an application name, a compact version of the
Openads logo is displayed and your application name is shown alongside it:

In the Advertiser and Publisher interfaces, the logo is not
loaded from the Openads server and is not changed dynamically.

Openads 2.0 can be configured by using the Settings tab of the
Administrator interface. All configurable options are grouped into seven
sections, which can be selected from a drop down menu at the top of the screen.
There are currently seven sections: Database settings, Invocation and delivery
settings, Banner settings, Statistics settings, Administrator settings, User
interface configuration and Interface defaults

After you have made changes in one of the above sections, you
need to click the Save changes button to store the settings. After you have
clicked on this button you will be redirected to the next section.

Some settings are stored inside a small configuration file for
speed improvements, other settings are stored inside the database. Only
settings stored in the database can always be edited. The settings which are
stored in the configuration file can only be edited if the configuration file
is writeable by the web server.

Before you can edit the settings stored
inside the config.inc.php file you need to unlock the file and allow the web
server to make changes to it. By default the web server is not allowed to make
changes to the file for security reasons. If you are finished editing the
settings you need to make sure the file is locked, because otherwise it would
be possible other users on the same web server would be able to edit the
settings.

Unlocking the config.inc.php
file

If you are using a Windows web server check
the properties of the file and make sure the read-only flag is not set. If you
are using a Linux or Unix web server you can alter the write permissions with
the chmod command from the command prompt:

chmod a+w config.inc.php

If you do not have command line access to
your web server then your ftp client should be able to change file
permissions.

Locking the config.inc.php file

If you are using a Windows web server check
the properties of the file and make sure the read-only flag is set. If you are
using a Linux or Unix web server you can alter the write permissions with the
chmod command from the command prompt:

chmod a-w config.inc.php

If you do not have command line access to
your web server then your ftp client should be able to change file
permissions.