How to disconnect adstxtmanager

Adstxtmanager is Ezoic's ads.txt solution. Unfortunately, just like Ezoic - it's really difficult to uninstall. But we can walk you through it!

Can I use this for SHE Media's ads.txt lines?

You could. We don't necessarily recommend it because you'd have to update these lines every other week to ensure that SHE Media's lines are up to date. And that can be a pain.

(For publishers using WordPress, we recommend our Infuse plugin, which can keep your ads.txt file updated)

How do I remove it?

You have to work in reverse, unfortunately.  First you need to figure out how you'd initially configured your redirect:

1. .htaccess file redirect (go to your root directory and look for the .htaccess file, and open it and remove the redirect)Redirect 301 /ads.txt https://srv.adstxtmanager.com/$$$$$/yourdomain.com
2. Use the Ads.txt Manager Wordpress pluginIn your Wordpress Dashboard, go to Plugins, find Ads.txt Manager plugin and deactivate it and then delete it.
3. Nginx redirect (this is pretty techy, so you might need to ask your host if this was setup)server {
  location ~ /ads.txt {
    return 301 https://srv.adstxtmanager.com/$$$$$/yourdomain.com;
  }
}
4. PHP redirect (place in current ads.txt file if php) - this is the least likely one. Most people don't have php ads.txt files.<?php
  header('Location: https://srv.adstxtmanager.com/$$$$$/yourdomain.com');
  exit;
?>

Once you've removed this, now you want to remove everything from the adstxtmanager file to avoid it somehow reactivating.

In the Ads.txt manager site - that's adstxtmanager.com, login to your dashboard. It should show you if it's integrated, if it's displaying your ads.txt file.  If you were able to disconnect it, it should show that it isn't integrated with a red thumbs down.

But let's make sure that we disconnect the ads.txt.  Click in the top right on the three lines (aka the hamburger icon).  This will load up your settings and click on that section.  Make sure the toggle to Enable ads.txt is turned OFF.

At this point, everything in your dashboard should read that it's not integrated.

If it doesn't click into any of these sections to make sure that you've disconnected absolutely everything that you can.

That should disconnect it!  If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to reach out to our support team at support@shemedia.zendesk.com - keep in mind that we aren't adstxtmanager support engineers, but we can try to help you as best we can.  Ezoic's support team is likely the only group that can fully guide you through all these steps.