Tag: godaddy

  • Fixing the GoDaddy WordPress FTP credentials issue

    Over the past few years, people have been writing about an intermittent issue with WordPress sites hosted on GoDaddy where upon trying to update the WordPress site, the user is prompted for FTP credentials but the credentials are not accepted.This issue doesn’t seem to occur on fresh installations and no one is quite sure what […]

  • Manually Installing WordPress on GoDaddy Free Linux Shared Hosting

    Log in to your GoDaddy account and create a MySQL database Wait for the database to be created. Log in to the database, and note the server address Download the latest WordPress packager The latest version is available here: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip Unzip/decompress the package and upload the “wordpress” folder within to Run the WordPress installer When […]

  • Manually Installing Drupal 6.20 on GoDaddy Free Linux Shared Hosting

    GoDaddy offers free hosting when you purchase a domain. The free hosting shows ads on all of the hosted pages and prevents you from installing their offered applications. Follow these steps to install Drupal 6.x on the free hosting account and hide the ads. Create the MySQL database. The free hosting allows up to 10 databases. Download […]