User:Sirmob/Godaddy

Note - this is a work in progress that I intend to load to the MediaWiki website if and when it gets together

Godaddy hosting can be a useful hosting solution, especially for those with temporary, low-budget, and/or rapid prototyping needs. There have been some questions on mailing lists about getting Godaddy working, and no place where people have said "yes, this works," since I have found that some things, notably Gallery, don't work well.

Case study
This is meant to be a supplementary installation guide for someone working on

The Hosting Account
The page in question is being run off of a Linux Economy Hosting package for Godaddy, which provides PHP version 4.3.11. Software like PmWiki runs trivially on Godaddy's PHP, but it's a little more complicated to get database-connected software running (unsuprisingly).

You'll need to come up with a databse name, a database user, and a password - remember this so

Setting Up The Database
As soon as you get access to the Hosting Manager (which is probably before you have access to the site itself) you can set up a Mysql table. In the sidebar menu for the Hosting Manager, you can click on "DATABASES" and then "MYSQL" and then click the "Create New Table" button. The table name can be pretty arbitrary, you might want to "

Downloading MediaWiki
Godaddy hosting currently uses PHP version 4, which is no longer supported as of MediaWiki 1.7 (you will get a nasty "ABORT" message from the installer). I downloaded