First off, great mod. Thanks for working on this.

I've almost got the module doing what I want but it only seems to be half working.

I'm using ad GeoIP 6.x-2.x-dev with Ad 6.x-2.2.

I have set up an Ad Group which shows in a block. The Ad Group has two ads.

One is set to "visitors from the countries selected below->United States." This ad is working properly, it is showing for all U.S. visitors.

The other ad is set to "visitors from the countries not selected below->United States." It does not show up at all, even though I know about 45% of the site's traffic comes from visitors outside the U.S.

I've also tried selecting " visitors from the countries selected below->every country except U.S." It still doesn't show up.

I have tested the ad and it does show up properly if I don't use GeoIP and display to all visitors.

I'm not really sure what is going on here but any insight would be much appreciated.

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jeremy commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Try following the directions in documentation/DEBUG.txt that comes with the base ad module. You'll need to load the ad using a non-US IP address -- the easiest way to do this is to hack the code directly and manually set an IP right after the geoip lookup. You can then post the debug output here.

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sockah commented

Thanks Jeremy. I will give that a shot and post the results if I can't get it working.

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Branndon commented

Where do I add my custom IP to test? I need to make sure it's working in other states.

Edit: Found it, in ad_geoip.inc look for this (replace all three occurances)

$hostname = ip_address();

and replace it with this

$hostname = '123.456.789.0'; // Replace these numbers with your IP address.