Wednesday, July 30, 2008

GoDaddy Windows + Wordpress won't work

This was a painful lesson.

  1. Talked to GoDaddy and they say you can use WordPress w/ Windows account
  2. Download was easy, setup was easy, and I could write new posts to the blog and create new pages.
  3. Tried to change the configuration and that's where it fell apart.
I used K2, Tarski and the default Kubrick themes to test out if I could change options and none of them seemed to work. A few days of debugging showed that some of the options were not created in MySQL! Some more research showed just a slew of weird behavior :-(

Called GoDaddy again and they said "we don't support WordPress on Windows accounts!" Well, I sure wish they had told me that before I debugged PHP and the various themes!

So, DotNetNuke that will support the non-profit organization's web site. It actually downloaded easily and I was able to quickly create a site leveraging several different modules!

Yeah, I know - most of you are saying GoDaddy? Windows? Why didn't you use the LAMP stack that you know so well. I said non-profit organization, right? And, we have a custom ASP app that locked us into Windows.

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