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A specific cross domain policy is required

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to serve video ads from Revive Adserver.

By default, Revive Adserver is unlikely to may not be configured in a way to allow external video players to request pre-roll, mid-roll or post-roll video ads from Revive Adserver, due to the web server configuration. As a result, you may need to update your web server's configuration to ensure that the correct crossdomain.xml file is used for the delivery of banners (including video ads) from Revive Adserver.

 

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Understanding the Cross Domain Requirements

To deliver pre-roll, mid-roll or post-roll advertising (via Inline Video banners), the following process is followed:

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For this to work, this requires that the Revive Adserver server's crossdomain.xml file be configured to allow the user's web client to do this.

Revive Adserver's crossdomain.xml Files

Revive Adserver has two crossdomain.xml files:

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These two crossdomain.xml files serve different purposes.

Root crossdomain.xml File

The crossdomain.xml file that is included in the root directory of Revive Adserver attempts to set the cross domain permitted-cross-domain-policies setting to "all". This is to allow the Delivery crossdomain.xml file located in the www/delivery directory to be referenced and used by Revive Adserver. 

Delivery crossdomain.xml File

The crossdomain.xml file that is included in the www/delivery directory of Revive Adserver attempts to set the necessary cross domain settings required for video ad delivery.