I'm having a problem with this...
I'm running vBulletin 3.6.5, vbPortal 3.6.3, PhotoPost Pro, and Zoints Local on my site.
I installed the latest version of PAN (OpenAds now) and installed the XML file here. I set the folder for PAN in the AdminCP, and made the template edits.
The vbPortal uses it's own footer template, and that's different from vB's footer template. So I placed the <ad what="zone:1"> in both where it's supposed to go.
The ads are displaying on the portal page, but not in the message forums or the photo galleries pages.
The site is:
www.minixriders.com (works on home page)
The forums are located at
www.minixriders.com/forums (there's a link on the home page, and the ads do NOT work on these pages).
I have tried a relative path (relative to the forum home path) "../sponsors", and I've tried the full physical path "/home/..........." both with and without the trailing slash and neither has worked for the forums pages.
But the portal page seems to work just fine, and I'm using the same template commands.