Comments on: WordPress, Linux, Windows, and GoDaddy

By: Ramakrishnan

Ramakrishnan — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:53:59 +0000

Yes, I face lot of problem (Internal server 500 error)with godaddy windows shared hosting plan when using WordPress Installation, Actually Godaddy Windows hosting plan supports Php, and Php is installed IIS 7.0 rather than Apache. So I personally advise you to go for linux based hosting plan or go for hostgator.

By: digitalartempire

digitalartempire — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:13:28 +0000

@steph tx matey

1 question I uploaded my new theme but now in apreances it not there
its inlustered and worked before ??

where do you access default and classic it just has available themes pls help before i throw my machine out the window tx

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:46:27 +0000

No, you don’t have to have Linux OS in order to have Linux hosting. I wondered that myself last year before I chose the Linux platform (I run Windows OS on my desktop) because the Windows hosting wouldn’t support php on GoDaddy.

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:46:02 +0000

@digitalartempire –

By: digitalartempire

digitalartempire — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:16:41 +0000

hey do i need to have a linux os myself to have a linux host ?
I currently have a windows os ?
i knowthis is a simple question
tx

By: AF

AF — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:21:55 +0000

I found this page on the godaddy website – it may help anyone else who finds themselves needing to switch the operating system on their hosting account:

http://help.godaddy.com/article/1285?isc=gdbb1207

To Switch Your Hosting Account Operating System
1.Log in to your Account Manager.
2.In the My Products section, select Hosting.
3.Click on the name of the hosting account whose operating system you want to change.
4.In the Account Details section on the right, click Upgrade/Downgrade Hosting Account.
5.In the Select New Plan section, select a new hosting plan. You can also upgrade your bandwidth (additional data transfer) and disk space at this time.
6.Click Continue.
7.If your new hosting plan is an upgrade from your existing plan, proceed through the purchase process. Otherwise, click Save Changes.

This change may make take up to 72 hours depending on the size of the site, the number of databases and other factors that may increase the complexity of the migration. You will receive a email message when we complete your upgrade.

add’t info thru link

By: CF

CF — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:32:50 +0000

I have done all of this too but my account is still saying ‘pending acocunt change’ after almost 3 days. I reeceived an email this morning from GoDaddy sayin that they’d upgraded/change dmy account. Did anyone else have to wait this long? Is there a problem?
I would call but last time I did the woman struggled to understand my English accent!!!!

By: dule

dule — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:23:05 +0000

Everything went smoothly and quickly :) And site is running without a problem.
Thanks adm.

By: dule

dule — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:57:12 +0000

Thank you adm :) I guess this is right solution for the problem I have :)
I was not able to asign rights to files and folders on my site (e.g chmod 777).
It was because my site was on windows server. Solutin was to change to linux server.
So I’m trying it right now following your advice.

p.s.
I have backup of my site on my home hard disk so if anything goes wrong I will still be able to get it right :)
Thans!

By: adm

adm — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:17:24 +0000

This comment might be entirely outdated, but i had the same problem recently. I set up a server for a restaurant I was working at and set it up as a Windows server. Now, I’m updating the site to run on wordpress. I got the same error message, but all I had to do to change to linux was go to my list of hosts, click the domain name I was changing servers for, and on the right click Upgrade/Downgrade account. I chose the identical service I was using, but Linux instead of Windows, and godaddy did everything for me.

It brought me to my list of hosts, and now it’s “Pending Account Change”, I didn’t get any notifications about additional billing, so I’m assuming it’s just changing servers.

Hope this helps.