Question

Hello all, I've been trying for a few days now to successfully install 4.1.2 on my shared GoDaddy hosting account. This means I don't have shell access. I reviewed the support documentation on here and found (at least according to the chart) that TWiki was not listed in the help section for those of us using shared hosting. Also that page seems not to have been updated in a few years so I was wondering if there were an changes. GoDaddy has of course has said they don't support 3rd party installation, but has said the account meets the minimum requirements (I have the economy hosting package). So I throw myself on the help community here for tips and pointers. Any help would be appreciated!!

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-- ScottEdwards - 04 May 2007

Answer

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You'll need to give us a run-down on what you have tried, and what happened. Also what level of access you do have. FTP?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 May 2007

If you get a successful installation on your shared GoDaddy account, could you share this with the TWikiCommunity by creating a TWikiOnSharedGoDaddyHost topic starting from TWikiOn?

-- PeterThoeny - 15 May 2007

Sorry, closing this after more than 30 days...

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Jul 2007

(see TWikiOnSharedGoDaddyHost) I just setup 4.1.2 on a Godaddy shared hosting account. First, you must upgrade from Economy to Deluxe, since Economy doesn't have CGI.

I think my steps were:

1. Unzip Twiki
2. create a bin/LocalLib.cfg with my $twikiLibPath set to "/home/content/x/y/z/xyzExample/html/twiki/lib"; (where "xyzExample.com" would be my website)
3. I renamed all extensionless files in the /bin file to *.pl
4. I uploaded all these files to /twiki using Filezilla 3
5. I then recursively chmodded everything to 777 using Filezilla 3
6. Then went to http://xyzExample.com/twiki/bin/configure.pl (Defaults are good, except set temp dir to /tmp and suffix to .pl)
7. I then setup an email account in the Godaddy interface ... like admin@xyzExample.com
8. reduced permissions of most files as instructed to by the TWiki instructions.

That's pretty much what I did. Sorry if I forgot something.

I couldn't get SMTP working through SMTP calls, but got the sendmail working via "/usr/lib/sendmail -t -oi -oeq".

Good luck.

-- DavidDickey - 08 Jul 2007

Thanks David for sharing this!

-- PeterThoeny - 08 Jul 2007

It's not pretty but I added better directions at TWikiOnSharedGoDaddyHost.

-- DavidDickey - 08 Jul 2007