# Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

General Questions
Using Keitaro

# General Questions

# How to install Keitaro

Read our knowledge base page.

# Trial license limitations

The trial license has all the features of a Professional license but limited by:

two campaigns;
two streams in each campaign;
only one filter can be used in a single stream.

# I did the upgrade but Pro features are unavailable

Click on admin > Update the license in the upper right corner of the tracker.

# What are server requirements?

Read our requirements page.

# What do the errors in a log mean?

Read Troubleshooting.

# What will happen after the license expire?

The tracker will stop all the redirects and its work.

# Can I install several Keitaros with one license?

Only in case all the licenses will be used on a server with the same ip.

# How to change the license IP

You can change the license IP in your account on https://keitaro.io.

# Payment Methods

Bank cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay.

We accept all international payment systems bank cards - Visa, MasterCard, AmericanExpress. Use Safari browser to pay with Apple Pay, or Chrome browser for Google Pay. VAT will be added to a final amount for EU users.

WMR

You can also pay with WMZ if you'll make a WMZ>WMR exchange in your WebMoney keeper.

Pay from the balance

Pay from the balance button is available when you have an amount which is enough to pay for the license you ordered.

# Using Keitaro

# How to add domains

Buy Pro license
Add an A-record to your domain’s DNS:

@ A x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is your server’s IP.

# Why doesn't the stream work, or why does the click go to a wrong stream?

Go to the “Maintenance > Logs > Traffic” page.
Enable traffic log.
Make a click, or wait until a click gets into a wrong stream.
Look at a traffic log. There you'll be able see how the sream filters have just functioned.

Also, have a look at the “Additional > Traffic Simulation” menu. You can emulate getting any user to a campaign there.

# How to find out the reasons for traffic loss

Compare the number of “raw” clicks (heats), not the unique ones. Keitaro uses its own algorithms for uniqueness.
Compare the stats in the same time zone with the affiliate network.
Check your domain’s SSL-certificate.
(ONLY for the trackers installed via the terminal). Go to Maintenance > Status and check the max children reached. If the value is more than 10, write to our support team, we will help you to set up PHP-FPM.
In case you use shared hosting or a server with ISPmanager – reinstall the tracker using our current solution for servers How to Install Keitaro.
Check your scripts work in AdBlock.
A lot of bot can stuck in the redirects such as meta-redirect or double meta-redirect. Keitaro could not mark them as bots, but some bots can’t go through these types of redirects. To check this, make a redirect to another campaign and see the difference.
Check all the streams, make sure all destinations work.
Check Maintenance > Logs > System Log for errors.
If you use CloudFlare, switch Firewall to “essentially off”. Disable the compression.
Validate your domains with host-tracker.com, http://urlvoid.com and http://virustotal.com.
In case Keitaro is integrated with Script or Iframe, the traffic loss could happen because bots or browsers with high level security settings are visiting the page.
Check your log-file access.log from nginx with server requests. Check if there are 500 or 502 errors, e.g.: 84.154.60.91 - - [16/Nov/2017:03:36:01 +0200] "GET /cmp HTTP/1.1" 502 1243 "http://test.com. 502 means your server doesn’t cope with the traffic, 500 means the errors in tracker’s work (see Maintenance > Logs).

# Why there’s no conversions or a postback doesn’t work?

Read Postbacks page.

# What is an admin panel address?

http://your_domain/admin

# How to reset Keitaro password

Read How to Reset a Password for Keitaro.

# The license period haven’t extended after I bought the license

Check your license key and the one saved in /var/license/key.lic file;
Delete /var/license/hash.lic file.

# How can a license key be changed?

Write a new key in /var/license/key.lic and delete the /var/license/hash.lic file.

# Why counter numbers at LiveInternet (Metrics) website and Keitaro are different?

If the website is the source of traffic:

Check if the domain is present in antivirus databases through virustotal.com;
Check if there are problems in Keitaro functionality, check the logs /var/log/errors.log и keitaro_errors.log;

If the website is the traffic receiver:

Compare hits, uniques are counted differently in different systems. If the server statistics, for example, WebStat is installed, check their indices.
Keitaro can skip the bots if those do not load the counters;
Counters may be blocked by browser plugins.

# Why does FB and Keitaro stats differ?

Possible reasons:

Your ads are visited by spy services like AdMobiSpy;
You compare the stats in different time zones or for different periods.
Facebook doesn’t calculate repeated clicks, check unique clicks.
Disable Prefetch settings (Maintenance > Settings).
You are using an old klick_client.php library or WP plugin.

# Why is the domain with Keitaro marked as "Malicious site"?

Some services give the website “Malicious site” status for redirection to another domain.

To avoid it:

Create a file main.html with any content in the domain directory;
Open the page “Maintenance > Settings > Misc > Domain Action”;
Choose action “Redirect to URL” and write URL of the created file.

# How can I replace or hide a referrer?

Read How to Hide Referrer page.

# How can I correct keywords encoding?

Add the parameter charset=utf-8 to the links to your campaigns.

# How to restrict access to the admin panel?

Apache.

Create an /admin/.htaccess file with the following contents:

<Files index.php>
order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 1.2.3.4
</Files>

Nginx.

Add this to host section /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

location /admin/index.php {
    allow 1.2.3.4;
    deny all;
}

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