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Please follow directions
precisely to ensure un-interrupted ad serving.
Pre-Installation Notes
- Verify that you are
currently using Version 3. If unsure, look inside banmanfunc.asp or banman.asp for the version number.
- If you have made any
modifications to the code they will be overwritten. Version 9 is
compiled and you no longer have access to the source code.
- Make a backup copy of
the entire /banmanpro/ folder on your web server as well as the SQL
database. This upgrade will alter the database.
- Version 9 stores the
administrator password in an encrypted format. This upgrade will
reset the password to Admin1. As soon as the upgrade is performed,
login to the administration console using your old username and a
password of "Admin1" then reset the password in the setup area.
- If you are currently
using SSI or the ASP Function call to serve ads, this upgrade will not
work as the pages are now ASPX (ASP.NET) instead of traditional ASP.
- Verify that your
web site or virtual directory is running .NET 2.0 and not 1.1.

Installation Instructions
- Extract the upgrade files contained in banmanproSQL10upgradeFrom3.zip
to a temporary location on your local computer. You will now see
several folders including RootDirectory, Admin, Images, Advertiser,
and Bin.
- Obtain the following database
connection properties found in db.asp
Database Name
Database User Name
Database Password
Data Source (IP or Server Name)
- Set the database connection in
the web.config file located in the RootDirectory folder. The variable is called
DBConnectionString.
<add key="DBConnectionString" value="server=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX;UID=BanManPro;PWD=yourpassword;DATABASE=BanManPro"
/>
Server=The IP Address or
physical server name of the SQL server
UID=The Username you assigned to the database. The default
username is BanManPro
PWD=The password you assigned to the database
DATABASE=The name of the database. The default is
BanManPro
- Make sure the folder holding Ban Man
Pro is an application starting point. If Ban Man Pro is installed
in its own web site, then you need not worry about this.
Otherwise, please follow these
instructions to make the folder an application starting point.
- From within SQL Query Analyzer,
execute the script called banmanproSQL10upgradeFrom3.sql on your existing
Ban Man Pro database. The database is now converted to the new
format. If you are unsure how to do this, please review Steps
5-7 of the original database instructions found at: support/SQLnewdb.asp
and noting that in step 5 the SQL script is named banmanproSQL10upgradeFrom3.sql.
Note: If you receive the error below it is not fatal and can be
ignored...BMP_proc_ObtainBannerForKeywordCampaignAdvanced4, Line 27
Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on table 'Campaigns' because
it is not full-text indexed.
- Copy the files from the directory called
"Root Directory" to the web server directory where Ban Man
Pro is installed. If you installed the software at http://www.yourdomain.com/banmanpro
then that is where these files are to be copied. You will be
overwriting the existing files.
- Copy the file in the Images
directory to the images directory. This will most likely be... http://www.yourdomain.com/banmanpro/images.
- Copy the entire Admin, Advertiser, and
Bin folders into the folder where Ban Man Pro is installed. Be sure to
include all subdirectories.
- Open the application in your
browser (http://www.yourdomain.com/banmanpro/admin/default.aspx).
Note that the administration console is now located in a separate
folder called /admin/
Login using your old username and the
password of "Admin1".
- Once logged in, click Setup.
Reset the password. Under Server Information change the Full Domain URL to point to the
a.aspx file instead of banman.asp. Enter the License
Key provided when you purchased the upgrade. Now update the setup.

- Now you should update the ad tags on
your web pages. You can do this by searching/replacing banman.asp
with ad.aspx. Ban Man Pro will continue to operate if you don't do
this, however, the performance may suffer because all calls to
banman.asp are simply being redirected to ad.aspx which causes a
performance degradation.
If you are using the sponsorship ad tags, replace any occurrence of
sponsorship.asp with Sequence2.aspx.
- If you are using the option to detect
spiders. Import the list of spiders and IP addresses. To do
this, open useragent.txt and copy and paste the list of browser
headers. Log into the Ban Man Pro admin console and click Setup.
Click Spider List (Headers). Paste the list of headers into
the text box and click "Add New Browser Header". The
headers are now added. Repeat the same process for IP.txt
in order to import the list of IP addresses to filter as spiders.
- Click Setup and make sure the field
called "Physical server path of BanManPro application" is set correctly.
This must be the physical file path to the location where BanManPro is
installed. This is used to find the Language Files. If not
set correctly the web interface will load more slowly. Once set
correctly, click Update Setup.

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