Setting up GoDaddy, WordPress, permalinks and mod_rewrite
Well, I know it is still my first day setting this thing up, but needless to say Google has received a lot of hits because of me. I am not a Linux guy because it really is just too much for me. It is a nice system with a lot of cool open source bells and whistles, but it I would never use it at work, therefore I don’t use it outside either.
GoDaddy lets me sign up for dirt cheap to host for a few years on Linux with PHP support. I needed the PHP support for WordPress (my current blogging tool)… so $3.95 a month later, here I am. Permalinks are a way to allow people to always link back to a post, so I think they should be clean and descriptive. http://blahblahblah.com/post/blah not http://blahblahblah.com/?id=24&lame=true. So I wanted to use the URI editor to create some sweet links. Problem one…
GoDaddy is fully automated. My site was up in 10 minutes and I was able to easily create the mySQL db and get WordPress up. Now came mod_rewrite…. when you have a url with querystring variables, a single page can process many links to display the same content. With the custom URI, you need to allow PHP to try to parse the “/” in http://blah.com/blah/blah/blah to create the querystring… strange, but very helpful. Supposedly search engines like it… the jury is still out for me on it. I think search engines have been out long enough to know how to spider querystring variables.
Blah… rambling. mod_rewrite is a way to handle this fun little issue with PHP. GoDaddy doesn’t support it, but there is a solution. Simple as creating a 404.php that mirrors my index.php file in your themes directory… that is it. When GoDaddy looks for a 404, it will find that file and process it. Because of that, the php page will render the post.
Slick, easy, word,
Matt
3 Responses to “Setting up GoDaddy, WordPress, permalinks and mod_rewrite”
I can not get comments to work with GoDaddy and WordPress, your 404 page will return you to the index, but will it allow comments?
Of course. You are doing it right now. =) I haven’t had any issues with this method.
Matt
For some reason, when I tried it, it didn’t work. Looked over your suggestion, other suggestion on the web and it didn’t work. I logged out as admin, and after some surfing went back and tried it again. It worked and the comments worked.
I don’t know if being logged in as admin had caused any initial problems, but it seemed to work after I logged out as admin and came back to the page later. Tried it on another webpage I am setting up and the same thing happened, worked after I logged out as admin. I am using WP 2.0.2.
It works now, and thank you for posting your information.
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