Problem Installing with GoDaddy

Finally! Got it setup today, what I had to do was delete my hosting account at godaddy.com which was running Windows server and had them set me up on Linux server software instead and the thing ran on the first attempt with ALL the exact same info in the wp-config file.

Of course doing that took my main website down for about 5 hours today while the DNS resolved and I had to reinstall the entire website from scratch, but I got WordPress working! heh.

Hello everyone, very new here! I too have godaddy.com, I have deluxe ASP windows and I am using FrontPage2002. I am reading that I can use Apache for login/password but know nothing about it. Do I need to install a program or is that something that is available through godaddy linux SOS? Can someone point me in the right direction. I am running one ASP database and of course godaddy only allows one access database so my login will have to be a table added to my already exsisting db. Please help!
Tammy

Just to add one more brick to the wall… I too am a godaddy.com customer with Deluxe hosting and also had to migrate my hosting plan from a Windows server to a Linux server in order to have a successful install of WordPress. Once I did, everything worked and installed like a charm. It took 24 hours for them to migrate my site.
Of course, now my entire website is broken, but WordPress works!

I use the free hosting that comes with the domain purchase, I’m positive my wp-config.php file is right (yes I’ve changed localhost to the correct adress), but I still get the “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.” error!

From what I’ve seen, I need to change my hosting from windows to linux, but I’m not sure how… this is what I get when I click the “change operating system” link:

Select New Hosting Plan Compare Hosting Plans

Economy Hosting w/ PHP (Free with Domain) – $0/mo.
Economy Hosting w/ PHP – $3.99/mo.
Economy Hosting W /ASP – $3.99/mo.
Economy Hosting w/ ASP / Windows (Free with Domain) – $0/mo.
Deluxe Hosting W /ASP – $9.99/mo.
Deluxe Hosting with CGI – $9.99/mo.
Deluxe Hosting with ASP – b – $6.99/mo.
Deluxe Hosting with CGI – b – $6.99/mo.
Premium Hosting w/ PHP / PERL – $19.99/mo.
Premium Hosting w/ASP – $19.99/mo.
Premium Hosting w/ PHP / PERL – b – $14.99/mo.
Premium Hosting w/ ASP / Windows – b – $14.99/mo.

I changed to the only other one that was free, the “Economy Hosting w/ PHP (Free with Domain) – $0/mo.” one. It says it’s pending account change in the status section… does this mean I just have to wait untill it changes or is there something else I have to do?

Hello all,

I have GoDaddy hosting on a Windows box, and I’m definately running into the same problem as everyone else with the “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress”. I had checked and double checked everything before seeing the solution was to switch to Linux. I’m asking GoDaddy to switch over right now.

In relation to your question, mophed, I looked into the hosting options, and the reason we have to switch to Linux is that Windows hosting only supports ASP or ASP.net, hence the reason WordPress couldn’t find PHP installed The Linux boxes support a plethera of languages, including PHP4 and 5. So basically any Linux plan should work, so I’d make sure “Economy” plan runs Linux.

Good luck, everyone

I just spoke to someone at GoDaddy! about this exact problem. He told me that if you have the ASP/Windows package, the php files of WordPress will not work properly. Apparently they have php running in safe mode on the Windows servers, and it blocks much of the execution necesary to generate the WordPress pages. He switched me to the Linux plan (at no charge) and things should be up and running properly in 24 hours.

Does anyone know if you switch from Windows to Linux on GoDaddy does it require any additional work on your end? I am trying to upgrade from 1.5.1.1 to the latest version and I can’t get around that “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.” error. My blog is working fine right now and I don’t want to take the site down for a long period of time.

Yes, I am using Godaddy and yes I am having MySql issues. Everything appears to be correct (below):

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘connectblog’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘connectblog’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘myblog’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘mysql123.secureserver.net’);

I have the Deluxe, Linux package and I’ve tried EVERYTHING. Please help…

I’ve got a different godaddy issue. I’m pretty sure when someone in the know sees this error they will know exactly what to do to fix it.

It’s definetly a path problem.

Please check out…

https://208.109.38.131/tkr/wp-admin/install.php

wp-config.php =

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘dakev’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘dakev’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXXX’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘mysql123.secureserver.net’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
?>

//I suspect the problem lies here…

define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);

//because it’s a path issue. Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

Okay… scratch the above post. I think the fact that I’m trying to put this blog in it’s own directory is causing problems (which doesn’t really make sense to me, but I installed it on the root directory and it seems I’ve made progress).

Please check out…

https://208.109.38.131/wp-admin/install.php

now I get this error…

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/content/t/h/e/thekeverreport/html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 415

Line 415 of capabilities.php is…

if ( $user->user_level > $other->user_level || $user->user_level > 8 || $user->ID == $other->ID )

This is where I’m stuck.

I thought this might be an path problem because the path looked funny to me.

I found out the absolute path by creating creating path.php and uploading it to the root directory. Please check it out.

https://208.109.38.131/path.php

It looks as if…

/home/content/t/h/e/thekeverreport/html

is the root. But what does the parse error mean? I did a search and found nothing even remotely simliar.

Is it possible the reason I’m running into trouble is because I haven’t forwarded thekeverreport to the new host yet, and I’m dealing with a dedicated ip?

If anyone can help, I would really really apprecaite it.

I figured out the problem.

For some reason, my dial-up connection was not ftp-ing all the files over correctly.

When I ftp’d everything from a broadband connection, all the files transferred correctly and everything worked excellently.

OK, I have a Godaddy + WordPress problem. I’ve loaded wordpress so many times that it’s strange, but.. here’s what I get when I try to install:

*****************
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?
********************************

and I’ve gone through:

***************************************
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘burns104’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘burns104’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxx’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
********************************************

for “DB Host” I’ve also tried:

mysql39.secureserver.net’

what else could I be missing?

I emailed godaddy and they weren’t able to help…

got:

“”
Thank you for contacting online support. I apologize for the inconvenience. Unfortunately we are unable to support the installation or performance of 3rd party applications. “”

bummer.

Exactly. Get a real host asap.