godaddy hosting for Drupal

eggonbeagle - November 17, 2008 - 17:19

first post to these forums;
new to Drupal...so bear with me.

Previously, I've done my work in asp.net 2.0 with alot of html and flash. The drupal platform was introduced to me by a fellow freelancer and it has a real appeal.

after developing a simple site on 'wamp' locally, i wanted to upload to my godaddy shared hosting site and after beating my head against the wall for an interminable amount of time, i had moderate success - albeit painfully and incomplete.

fast forward:
i talked to the scripting support at godaddy; got a sharp woman named Bonnie who directed me to the facile Drupal 6 installation package on godaddy. Within minutes, i had a fresh install with configured database, etc.
Why I didn't see this sooner? I don't know, it would've saved me so much time..
so, in the spirit of community, I thought I'd share this - this may already be something everyone here already knows...but.
after logging into godaddy;

going to my hosting account

manage account

in the hosting control center, at the top, there is a large icon for your applications

or in content, choose godaddy hosting connection

from the left index, choose 'content management'

choose Drupal and follow the instructions.

again, maybe this is too obvious, but, I wish I'd seen this sooner, I was importing tables, breaking up tables. A real pain.
so, its two steps forward, one step back; in that, now i have to recreate my content. But at least I can move forward and need not mess with all of the settings.php, default.settings.php and .htaccess files to get Drupal to work.

hope this is helpful.

Jack

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VeryMisunderstood - November 17, 2008 - 17:21

be careful with a 3rd party installation script that installs drupal. Great for testing of scripts but the forums are full of threads where updating and upgrading becomes a total headache for those who've used this method.

that was a question i was

eggonbeagle - November 25, 2008 - 00:22

that was a question i was about to discuss w. godaddy.. they are running 6.5.. am i responsible for updating to 6.6. good point.
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Version Upgrade

GDHosting - December 1, 2008 - 22:53

eggonbeagle,

We don't recommend upgrading to a new application version on your own if you choose to continue using Hosting Connection. This is because it can prevent successful upgrades through Hosting Connection in the future.

We did recently upgrade to version 6.6. See this help article, http://help.godaddy.com/topic/331/article/1737, for instructions.

Regards,

Alicia R.
Go Daddy Hosting

I have a host space at

godfather1 - January 15, 2009 - 03:51

I have a host space at godaddy (deluxe account) and am running drupal. I installed imagecache and so i need to increase php memory to 96MB(its recommended) . How i will increase php memory ? I cant see any php.ini file on my root folder.

Thanking you.

I'm having the same

jackson_vkh - February 6, 2009 - 18:19

I'm having the same problem... Bump!

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VeryMisunderstood - February 6, 2009 - 20:02

the php.ini file on a shared host is not accessible from your folders.

simply create a php.ini in your drupal root folder and add the correct syntax. In this case memory_limit = XM

where X = some number larger than what your current memory limit is set at.

you can check your current memory limit by running a phpinfo() Though I'd venture a guess you have this information available to you in your host panel somewhere.

By default, php.ini is

GDHosting - February 10, 2009 - 22:58

By default, php.ini is automatically created during new account setup. This help article provides more details: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1085. You can also see this article on increasing PHP upload limits: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1475.

thanks alicia..

eggonbeagle - March 31, 2009 - 16:10

its good to know that some godaddy techs are monitoring the drupal forums for trouble shooting.
jack