GoDaddy & installing WP problems

  • Please HELP!!

    i have been trying to install wordpress for nearly three hours now. I have been searching the net high & low to find out what i am doing wrong.
    I read somewhere that when using GoDaddy to host a site, WordPress is very difficult to Install. I have set up my MySQL & the information seems to be right in the wp-config file. But I keep getting the same error message…

    “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”

    Does anyone know what I can do?? I am so LOST it isn’t funny. I’ve been working with raw html for years but when it comes to PHP & MySQL stuff… i’m not so sharp…

    Please any comments would be SOOO GREATLY APPRECIATED!

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  • godaddy i think dont use localhost for the ‘DB_HOST’ part …

    are you sure from all info inserted ?

    Thread Starter deathbloom

    (@deathbloom)

    Yes, i have changed the localhost to my actual mysql999.secureserver.net provided through GoDaddy’s MySQL setup. I read about that in another post but it still is not working.

    I read something about GoDaddy running ASP instead of PHP… I’m not sure what that means. Maybe I need to contact them to see if I can switch over to PHP…?

    It means you need to contact them, ask them to switch you to a real server (as in linux rather than windows), and start over.

    Thread Starter deathbloom

    (@deathbloom)

    Okay!! Thankyou SO MUCH!!

    You’re welcome. Post back if you have any further trouble.

    You may be able to do this without contacting them directly. I use GoDaddy and WordPress and had a similar problem on one of my blogs – which I’d accidentally set up as ASP.

    You want to click on the “Hosting & Servers” button on the green bar and then “My Hosting Account.”

    Click on the hosting account you’re using for WordPress and then in the sidebar look for “Upgrade/Downgrade Hosting Account.”

    Click that link and you’ll see a list of possible account settings. You can use the radio buttons there to swap between hosting plans – just select the PHP version of your current hosting plan. This change may take some time (maybe even a day) but it should get you going.

    As I said, I’ve done this at least once already and it worked like a charm.

    Just to second what WildBil2Me said – I’ve had to do this for many years when clients set up their own hosting and make the same mistake. By default, GoDaddy sets your plan up on Windows unless you change it yourself (and no, they don’t make it very obvious as to where you need to do that, but it’s there).

    The switch shouldn’t take more than an hour though.

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