Comments on: WordPress Permalinks on GoDaddy Hosting

By: Simon Rimmington

Simon Rimmington — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:20:21 +0000

Thanks for this tip, I was going nuts trying to figure it out. Everytime I changed something it added the to 30 mins. Time for a cup of tea indeed. Thanks Again

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:02:13 +0000

Thanks for this clear explanation. Helped me avoid pulling out my hair!

By: Roch

Roch — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:00:30 +0000

Do you know of anyway with htaccess to disable someone from using your domain to point to their own website on the same server? Ex: they use YOURDOMAIN.com to promote their PHISHING WEBSITE.COM by using this simple URL to send users : YOURDOMAIN.COM/~phishing/file.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:58:38 +0000

OK here’s hoping everyone who is having problems with this reads this comment. Thanks to http://faq.wordpress.net/view.php?p=20, I tried accessing the godaddy control panel, going to setttings, 404 error handling, and changed the default “godaddy’s 404 error page” to “home page” and viola, everything worked. It did take about 20 minutes for the change to take effect.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:02:18 +0000

Im dealing with this issue and was wondering if the htaccess should contain the wrapper or not? Anyone know? Im just using basic pretty permalink setup with /%category%/%postname%

Thanks!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:30:20 +0000

Thank you for posting this. I have been working with clients that have GoDaddy as a host and couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong. I tried CHMOD’ing the .htaccess file and even did a funny dance around my computer hoping the gods would take pity on me.

I will wait and see what happens. I am just wondering if in the .htaccess file if it should have something in it once you have messed with the settings? Cause I have Begin WordPRess and End WordPress and nothing in between. On my other sites there is, but on this one there isn’t. Strange.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:28:47 +0000

I will wait and see what happens. I am just wondering if in the .htaccess file if it should have something like this in it:

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

By: Learn To Ride A Horse

Learn To Ride A Horse — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:11:48 +0000

oh man, thank you SO much… i thought my brain was going to explode! lol. you’re a lifesaver! thanks!

By: andy rooney

andy rooney — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:33:03 +0000

Anyone have a GoDaddy account? I need to migrate my shared servers to a dedicated server and not sure how all of that works.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:52:29 +0000

I’ve read countless posts on the godaddy delay and waiting 10 minutes to 2 hrs for it to update but after 3 hrs I’m getting really impatient and wondering if this will EVER be resolved!!

I’m running wordpress 2.7.1 on an economy hosting plan and others have done fine but me…not so much

Any help would be appreciated!

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:34:38 +0000

Thanks for the info. Could not get help on the Godaddy FAQ so I hit Google and found your post. Thanks for sharing.

By: s1

s1 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:08:48 +0000

Yes, thank you!! It’s hard to leave broken links alone and think they will eventually start working This should be posted on GoDaddy!

By: mccormicky

mccormicky — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:14:05 +0000

Thanks for writing this.You are awesome! I can’t believe how long I sweated this problem. Months. When I first began talks with my client and wanted them to change from /?p=123 I felt really silly and stupid when I got that 1st 404.
In this case it was only a 10 minute wait before the new permalinks kicked in proper-like. Jeez!

By: Art

Art — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:14:36 +0000

I guess I need to stop this “I want it now!” attitude with GoDaddy. Your post was extremely helpful, so thanks!

By: StacyN

StacyN — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:49:46 +0000

YES – thank you. Because this is making me crazy, and I’ve built plenty of WordPress sites! I was trying EVERYTHING to make this work…

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:23:25 +0000

Glad to help. I had a similar experience the first time I worked with GoDaddy’s hosting. So I thought I’d save people some stress by posting this info.

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:03:44 +0000

Glad its working for you now. Thanks for stopping by.

By: faze one studio

faze one studio — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:44:58 +0000

yeah! thanks i kept flipping back and forth from perma structures and trying every plugin known.. thank you!

By: faze one studio

faze one studio — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:46:15 +0000

o yeah, i gave this a stumble for ya!

By: James

James — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:12:45 +0000

You are a life saver. This problem was driving me nuts. I started thinking I would have to change server configurations or hosts. Patience is a virtue, or so I’m told.