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I was originally put aback by GoDaddy stating upon their website (; whilst trying to install their Joomla 1.5.9 version onto my web space) that Joomla was incompatible with their "Free Hosting" plan.

Well; needless to say, I was persistent in finding out why, and was able to finally complete a successful, and stable install onto my web space by uploading the core Joomla 1.5.9 release files which contain some minor ".css" modifications wherewith said modifications do nothing more than act as a method of disabling the "" object that GoDaddy injects into all resulting client side code.

GoDaddy MySQL 5.0 Database Setup:

AN IMPORTANT NOTE HERE: DO NOT ASSUME THAT FOR EVERY MYSQL DATABASE YOU SETUP UNDER YOUR GODADDY ACCOUNT THAT THE IP ADDRESS AND HOST NAME WILL BE THE SAME. THAT IS WHY IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT IP AND HOST NAME YOUR DATABASE WILL BE ASSIGNED TO.

The (1st) first thing to do is setup your database at “GoDaddy” here: https://idp.godaddy.com/login.aspx?SPKey=GDMYAEB04&redirect=false&myaurl=%2fProducts%2fAccountList.aspx&ci=9008&product=hosting

Then (2) log in to your account using your GoDaddy account number or account name and password.


Then (3) Click upon the "Manage Account" link for the domain name you wish to set the database up on.


Then (4) click upon the dropdown for databases..


Then (5) click upon the “MySQL” icon.


Then (6) click upon the “Create Database” button near the
top – right of the page.


Then (7) click upon the radio button to select MySQL Version 5.0, then enter the description, database name and password. Write down this information (; you will need it for your Joomla! “configuration.php” file), then click upon the “OK” button.

Note: The “Database Name” and the “User Name” are the same when Joomla! logs on to the database.


Then (8) you will see a screen like this stating that your database is “Pending Setup”.


Then (9) (; after periodically refreshing [ F5 ] key) click upon the “Open Manager” link as shown. This will take you to the “phpMyAdmin” web interface in a new browser window.


Then (10) log in to the “phpMyAdmin” database manager using your
database [DatabaseName] and [password].


Then (11) focus your attention upon the following area of the resulting page –
(; after log in) and be sure the settings as indicated are the same.


Then (12) we must determine “GoDaddy’s” host name for the server that your new database resides – upon because we cannot use an IP address in the “configuration.php” file.

To determine the host name for your database, we must copy the IP address (; yours may be different than shown) and paste it into a “DOS” or “Command Prompt” window. (; If you’d like, you could just write the IP address down, and type it in by hand).


Then (13) open a “DOS prompt” window and type “ pathping [ space ] “, then [ right – click ] the “ DOS Window Title Bar ”, select “ Edit “, then “ Paste “ to insert the copied IP address from the previous step. Now press [ Enter ] on the keyboard.


Then (14) after having pressed [enter] in the previous step, “pathping“ will determine the number of hops it takes to get to the “GoDaddy” server your database resides upon and will resolve the IP address you entered into a host name.


Then (15) we need to copy the “Host Name“ and paste it into “Notepad“ for future reference when setting up our Joomla! “configuration.php“ file.


Then (16) with the left mouse button; click, hold, and drag to highlight the host name as shown above.



Now paste the host name into your favorite text editor and save this file. Now your Database is setup and you should have recorded the database information as shown. Ignore the "ftp" information for now but if you know it, put it in.


Tomorrow, we will unpack our Joomla! ver-1.5.9 files onto our P.C., do some modifications and upload everything to your GoDaddy web space.
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