By steve22 on

I noticed that godaddy is offering an upgrade of their hosting software from Hosting Configuration 1.0 to Hosting Configuration 2.0. This article outlines some risks associated with upgrading. Has anyone upgraded their hosting software in godaddy? I just want to make sure that I do not corrupt my drupal site by upgrading to new configuration; as it would be a pain to revert back to 1.0.
Thank you.

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Dollars5 commented

Me too have a goDaddy account default config is 2.0

I am planning to use Drupal for my site and just read from other post that goDaddy is not Drupal friendly and seems like they have a database problem related to Lock table. Me waiting for others to respond before experimenting as I have limited time to spare for site (that is the reason I choose Drupal)

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knowlengr commented

I've read pro and con about Godaddy, but my experience has been mostly positive over the past 4 months, though on a Linux Virtual hosting account (Plesk).

Be advised that their PHP settings, though, at least on Win 2003 Deluxe, disable ini_get and fopen(), which I gather are needed for a brainless install (which is what I was looking for tonight, a spin around the Drupal block). I was using their Win shared hosting Deluxe account for this trial.

I have no information on the MySQL issues raised.

There's more on those settings elsewhere here.

http://drupal.org/node/21432.

Mark Underwood

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abaryudin commented

It works for me. Search the drupal site for changes, you need to make in the boostrap.inc and database.mysql.inc in order to fix the fact, that there are no LOCK TABLE permissions on GoDaddy Economic Plan.

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steve22 commented

thanks ! I also tried with it and configuration 2.0 works fine ! Only problem with GoDaddy shared Hosting is with unavailablity of "lock table" permission and IMAP extension

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abaryudin commented

Don't know if you can do anything about IMAP (and should you - on a shared and not very secure host?), but lock tables problem can be fixed by code sniplets, posted on the phorum. Try searching for GoDaddy...

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joemoraca commented

I am testing drupal 4.7 on a godaddy shared Linux hosting account and have not been able to get clean URL's to work -- I have played with the default 4.7 .htaccess but have yet to get it to work -- it works fine on other hosts. Yet parts of my .htaccess do work fine -- I can forward www.example.com to example.com just fine

I am also seeing the LOCK TABLE problem but I can deal with that --- although I had not found the reference to changing bootstrap.inc ... just database.mysql.inc

I would love to see all of the answers on how to make this work in one place. I am willing to do the writing after I know the answers.

Godaddy is a very good deal price wise .... and with my limited use I get good performance.

Joe Moraca
http://www.moraca.org

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abaryudin commented

Clean URLs worked for me out of the box, I just had to adjust the RewriteBase since I didn't want my site to be in the root directory. Maybe you have conflicting directives in other .htaccess files? Also, Godaddy have a cache of .htaccess files, so your changes don't take effect immediately.

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joemoraca commented

Glad to hear it can work.... I will keep trying. so the only change you made to the default .htaccess was

RewriteBase /yourfoldername

I have one install in the "/" folder and the one I working with in another "lower" folder.

If I have .htaccess in both folders does the higher level override the lower level one? I am new to Apache config stuff...

I naively thought that even a blank file named .htaccess in a folder would "take over" that folders configuration

Joe Moraca
http://www.moraca.org

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abaryudin commented

.htaccess in lower level will override settings from higher level. So if you have RewriteBase in lower level this could tamper your settings in / and so on. In general, if you wanted two installations under the same domain without subdomains, I would suggest two subdirectories like /site1 and /site2 - this would keep things more simple...

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joemoraca commented

I have the lock tables cleaned up

But I am still having a problem with the .htaccess I removed the one I had in the top level and went back to an unhacked .htaccess from 4.7.2 -- only modified the

RewriteBase /msa7510 -- which is the folder it is in

clean URL's still won't work ...

Joe Moraca
http://www.moraca.org

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joemoraca commented

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /msa7510

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^msa7510\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://msa7510.org/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

this is my whole .htaccess

the rewritebase works
the next 2 lines forcing it to not use the www works fine

just the next 3 lines don't seem to work -- if I click on the clean urls test I get a blank page - no errors just a blank page

I tried adding / to before index.php in the last line...

I tried adding /msa7510/ to before index.php in the last line ...

both options lead to a blank page...

Joe Moraca
http://www.moraca.org

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joemoraca commented

I got a refund from godaddy for my webhosting... and moved to dreamhost.com everything worked just fine ... and they use "modern" versions of software .... PHP5 and MYSQL 5 ....

Joe Moraca
http://www.moraca.org

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abaryudin commented

Glad it worked for you eventually. GoDaddy do use PHP5 (you need to configure it), but only MySQL 4.something.
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H200001 commented

What does your .htaccess file look like? I've tried everything suggested here, and I still can't get clean URLs.

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abaryudin commented

According to this comment on GoDaddy's blog they now support LOCK on MySQL. Haven't tested it myself yet, however.

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pawpetcare commented

They still don't allow 'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE' rights though...

I'm playing around with Drupal 4.7.2 on a leftover GoDaddy Budget account right now.
Everything seems to work, except for the Search module.

URL alias works perfect...

The server can get bogged down, and page load times range from 3-30 seconds; sometimes it just times-out. It's fast now, but later tonight it will be slooooooow. Switching MySQL servers didn't make any difference. My account has PHP 4.3 and MySQL 3.23! WTF? The Acidfree media module won't even work with MySQL 3.x.

Check it out: www.thatsalotof.info (a quick mockup on a spare site with a few months left that I'm using to prove if GoDaddy can get along with Drupal; I guess not)

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abaryudin commented

That's quite strange - my account has MySQL 4.something. Also, both PHP4 and 5 are available. Maybe you need to switch to Hosting Configuration 2 (or whatever they call it)?
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pawpetcare commented

As a matter of fact I 'upgraded' to the new Configuration 2.0 about a week ago. I think all that Configuration 2.0 adds is the ability to run PHP 4.x and 5.x software, and it disables server side includes.

I just double checked the site with phpinfo.php, and yes, MySQL is at version 3.23.49. Not that there is anything that bad about 3.23 (it is a proven workhorse), but most other hosts have modern versions of the software they are running. Maybe I'm on an old server?

It doesn't matter, I'm still switching hosts, but I'll keep GoDaddy for domains which I still think they are the best at.

FYI UPDATE: I just did a default Drupal installation on a Deluxe GoDaddy account, and I get the same problem; no CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE permissions, so the search module will not work. MySQL is also version 3.23.49 on this account as well. No different than the Economy account.

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abaryudin commented

It's up to you which hosting to use :-)

Maybe there is a bug in your setup somewhere - you could have raised a request support or something...

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