UPDATED 4/29/2009 – My original conclusion about Permalinks not working with Godaddy hosting has a new conclusion. Zac Vineyard noted below that it can take up to an hour to update the .htaccess file on the server so that the Permalinks work. I have personally confirmed that this does indeed work. Thanks Zac!
ORIGINAL POST:
I thought I would be helpful and post my recent research results in getting WordPress setup on a Godaddy hosting account. I did searches on Google and Technorati and nobody had a definitive answer.
The problem that I had was trying to setup permalinks for WordPress. Even though I had setup the .htaccess file and given it write permissions the permalinks would just go to Godaddy’s 404 page. The links did work with the standard setup.
So here’s the low down. There are 3 different levels of Godaddy Linux hosting accounts. They are –
- Economy
- Deluxe
- Premium
The economy level of hosting does not give you access to mod-rewrite. Deluxe does. So you if permalinks are not working you need to call up Godaddy and upgrade your account.
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The economy hosting plan works just fine for WordPress… I have it running on at least half a dozen sites, most for clients of mine. You get the plan with CGI – it works FINE.
I know that WordPress works fine on Godaddy under the economy plan.
What did not work for me was permalinks.
According to their support person they do not have the mod-rewrite module turned for the economy plan.
As soon as they moved the site to the deluxe plan permalinks worked great.
It could be that they were just taking advantage of me but I would hope that is not the case.
Sorry, but permalinks has worked fine on Economy for me as well…
You might want to try it again – set up another test run or something. I think someone was pulling your leg. I even went and checked through my clients that are using the Economy hosting, and I have no issues with using permalinks on them.
I have an Economy plan and work good for my whit a tip.
I copy the “.htacces” file and rename to “httpd.conf”.
And whit this 2 files work correctly.
It is possible that both of you are right which is unfortunate for me since I already upgraded my service for my customer.
I found this post explaining how to turn the RewriteEngine on.
Anyway, I got messed up by a tech support person that did not know what they were doing.
It’s quite unfortunate, Dan…
But at least you know now, and have the proper information to spread around. 🙂
(You can also always “downgrade” your hosting on GoDaddy… and if you get the ‘right’ support person, you might be able to request a refund. I have before, and for a completely different reason, only that I was looking to lower my costs based on the actual space/transfer space needs of the site.)
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I’d like to clear the air on the misconceptions. So, first let me explain some of the misconceptions surrounding GoDaddy and Worpress permalinks, then explain how you can get permalinks working on your Godaddy hosted WordPress blog. Go to: http://zacvineyard.com/blog/2008/10/24/wordpress-godaddy-and-permalinks/