rmorgan

I used a utility from godaddy to create the MySQL database, and it shows up as being there, because that’s where I got the information to populate the DB_HOST field.

Godaddy is no help in the matter, of course, and tells me to check with the publisher as to whether PHP in safe mode OR with all the disabled functions will be a problem.

I’m not really adverse to changing hosts, but I’m stuck between platforms. This is horribly off-topic, I know, but I’m on a Windows platform and *think* I would like to move to Linux for a variety of reasons. The problem is, I use MS FrontPage as my main editor and publisher, and I have some Access databases on my site. I don’t really know that much about MySQL and am not sure how long it would to learn. FP manages Access databases in an almost idiot-proof fashion, but doesn’t manage MySQL at all. It’s like the first time you’re on a diving board: You know it will be OK, but you still don’t want to jump. And, I don’t really want to change hosts and stay with Windows, because I expect I eventually will jump and then I’d be changing the site again.

So, here I am, wondering what to do and not getting WordPress to work. Not my best day…

As I feared, godaddy will not allow me to view the server error logs, so I can’t tell for certain if it’s the the safe-mode config of PHP that’s causing the problem, or the other commands they’ve disabled, or what.

Hi, and thanks for replying.

I did as you suggest, and got (among much else) this when I viewed php.php. Under PHP Core there are several functions with ‘sql’ in the command that are disabled. I don’t know if any of them are required for WP:

disable_functions getmyinode, getopt, getrusage, extension_loaded, dl, mysql_pconnect, crack_check, crack_closedict, crack_getlastmessage, crack_opendict, fsockopen, pfsockopen, mysql_list_dbs, mysql_stat, ini_get, ini_get_all, ini_alter, ini_set, get_current_user, get_defined_constants, get_include_path, php_ini_scanned_files, php_uname, phpcredits, restore_include_path, set_include_path, set_time_limit, version_compare, zend_version, getmypid, getmyuid, getmygid, assert_options, assert, fopen, fwrite, fread, file, fpassthru, file, mail, opendir, readdir, closedir getmyinode, getopt, getrusage, extension_loaded, dl, mysql_pconnect, crack_check, crack_closedict, crack_getlastmessage, crack_opendict, fsockopen, pfsockopen, mysql_list_dbs, mysql_stat, ini_get, ini_get_all, ini_alter, ini_set, get_current_user, get_defined_constants, get_include_path, php_ini_scanned_files, php_uname, phpcredits, restore_include_path, set_include_path, set_time_limit, version_compare, zend_version, getmypid, getmyuid, getmygid, assert_options, assert, fopen, fwrite, fread, file, fpassthru, file, mail, opendir, readdir, closedir

Under the MySQL section I got:

mysql
MySQL Support enabled
Active Persistent Links 0
Active Links 0
Client API version 3.23.49

Directive Local Value Master Value
mysql.allow_persistent On On
mysql.connect_timeout 60 60
mysql.default_host no value no value
mysql.default_password no value no value
mysql.default_port no value no value
mysql.default_socket no value no value
mysql.default_user no value no value
mysql.max_links Unlimited Unlimited
mysql.max_persistent Unlimited Unlimited
mysql.trace_mode Off Off

From this I don’t see any obvious MySQL problems, but I’m no MySQL expert.

My host again says they have PHP (safe mode) and MySQL support, and from this I guess they’re right…but, so far the installation is still going nowhere.

Thanks,
Randy