godaddy hosting for Drupal

Posted by eggonbeagle on November 17, 2008 at 5:19pm

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

Comments

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Posted by VM on November 17, 2008 at 5:21pm

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

Posted by eggonbeagle on November 25, 2008 at 12:22am

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

Posted by GDHosting on December 1, 2008 at 10:53pm

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

Official Support Representative for GoDaddy.com

I have a host space at

Posted by godfather1 on January 15, 2009 at 3:51am

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

Posted by jackson_vkh on February 6, 2009 at 6:19pm

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

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Posted by VM on February 6, 2009 at 8:02pm

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

Posted by GDHosting on February 10, 2009 at 10:58pm

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.

Official Support Representative for GoDaddy.com

php.ini vs php5.ini

Posted by brandonlcohen on April 20, 2010 at 11:45pm

I am a beginner to the website and Drupal world.

The issue I ran into was after editting the php.ini file was that nothing changed. Please make sure you follow these instructions below when editing your php.ini file.

Remember to check to see which PHP Version:
- If you have PHP 4.x save the file as php.ini
- If you have PHP 5.x save the file as php5.ini

Brandon Cohen
Drupal Beginner

php5.ini php memory limit increase

Posted by blackheartx on March 15, 2011 at 7:14pm

adding memory_limit = 96M on my php5.ini file for godaddy hosting didn't work for me.

i actually changed my settings.php file by adding this line
ini_set('memory_limit', '96M');

the ImageAPI GD2 seems to be happy now.

thanks alicia..

Posted by eggonbeagle on March 31, 2009 at 4:10pm

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

Can we host drupal on windows IIS 7

Posted by rafialikhan on April 27, 2010 at 8:52pm

When we bought the hosting site, we just wanted to have static content in place and took a Windows hosting package, but now that we have developed our site in drupal, need guidance on whether to switch OS (how?) The account details "select new plan" only shows windows options.

So suppose we are unable to switch operating systems, what next? How do we deploye Drupal with all its clean URL and other features intact on IIS 7 on godaddy?

Rafi Ali Khan