I also had the same issue getting it setup. The reason the default install doesn’t work is this that the “is mySQl extension installed” check is not an available php function on thier php server. Bypassing the script as stated above got me past that error. See below:
From GoDaddy.com’s help center
The following PHP functions are disabled on all of our Windows hosting accounts:
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extension_loaded
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