…this may or may not have stopped it
So after hours of work just trying to figure out if my server at godaddy has apache so that i can use the .htaccess thingummy to block the ip of that page scraper, i have managed to find out that it does, and changed my permalinks and blocked that ip. i know nothing of htacess files though, so i’m beginning to wonder if my copy/paste trick and then just changing the ip worked or not. certainly none of the links on this site work anymore. little annoyed, but it’s now ten to ten and i need to start work. so if anyone knows how i can (quickly if at all possible!) manage to change all the old permalinks into the new format, that would be great. On a related side note, if anyone is also living at godaddy (or was at some point) where the hell do they put what’s installed and what versions of which are on your server?! i figured there’d just be an info button living somewhere, and i could click it and life would be happy. I managed to find my version of php and mysql, but that’s it. i only found out that i have apache services because one help article told me that all their linux servers do. so annoyed, and now, i have to work!
**thinking about it… the problem with my permalinks/comments could be my htaccess file. i know nothing. email me if you have a solution, or know more than i do.
*nevermind… after fully crashing the site a moment ago, everything works now. bizarre, but whatever.
I am assuming that you just copied the .htaccess file from WordPress for the permalinks?
.htaccess files are so annoying.
But not even a close to how annoying GoDaddy is!
Ok. Log into GoDaddy, and click on the little My Account link on the right.
Once the page loads (have a drink or something while you’re waiting…), click on Hosting Account List, on the left.
Once that page loads (harflv anobther draaaank), click on Manage Account, in the middle.
Be amazed as another window opens.
At this point I usually switch back and close the original window, but that’s just me.
You can click on the little (?) beside Hosting Configuration. That will pop up yet another window. Wait for it to load (javhe anoter dranwk) and it will tell you which PHP versions you can use.
Once you’re done, close that one and you should be back to your Manage Account screen.
Click on the Databases whooshy bar, and click on MySQL. Wait for that page to load (jubst onbe nmore driankk) and click on the little pencil icon beside the database in question. The resulting page should show you your MySQL version.
Now attempt to close all the crazy windows that GoDaddy has opened before your browser crashes.
Hope this helps!
Gavin
… i added to the end of the .htaccess file that wordpress made. it hasn’t gotten rid of/overwrote what i’ve had yet.
i knew how to get the php and the mysql info, but thanks anyways gavin.
Woah, I misread you.
“On a related side note, if anyone is also living at godaddy (or was at some point) where the hell do they put what’s installed and what versions of which are on your server?! i figured there’d just be an info button living somewhere, and i could click it and life would be happy. I managed to find my version of php and mysql, but that’s it.”
I thought you said you needed to know about PHP and MySQL.
What exactly are you looking for?
i was looking for a list which told me not only the php and mysql versions above (not in two separate places) but what languages (and versions if necessary) it could support. like whether it could handle apache, perl, java, etc. I can find a list outside if you go in to compare packages, but you’d think they’d have a list inside your hosting. i was just annoyed. on a side note, I found out that godaddy already has the option to add on wordpress to your site, so you don’t have to do wordpress’ 5 minute install. but i like the control of being able to do it on my end.
I didn’t know GoDaddy offered WP. That’s kindof cool.
Ya, I couldn’t find a list, however I do know that Java is client-side, so it has nothing to do with your hosting – it depends on the visitor’s browser. Perl is usually a standard, but I don’t know which versions are supported.
I hear with host-provided applications like WordPress, they don’t let you play with the database manually, because you might break it.
lampp is the standard, so Linux(unix) apache (2.x me thinks) php (hopefully 5 by now) and perl (5.x probably). You can probably find it in a faq somewhere on the site seeing as it would be a standard accross the board.
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp?ci=9009
-> Compare Linux/Windows plans
kinda, but you’re right, you can’t edit the database or anything. so if you lose your password, you’re screwed.
i did find it in the faq. and by “somewhere” you have no idea. i searched for like an hour. (then again, it was six am…) it’s like they’re trying to hide something.
yeah, but how come there isn’t a list inside your logon? Like when you click hosting to view/edit your account. I don’t want to compare packages, i want to log in, and then click on my account, and have a button that tells me exactly what’s on that compare page without the comparisons… and tell me which version of php and mysql are running… without having to go to those separate two pages. how come i’m the only one who gets this?!
So you are looking for something like this?
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pBTh1cur3TBwJmq0GhCwnZQ
yes! but on an after-i-login page on my godaddy account.
Call them up, they’re pretty good about customer service. Demand that they put something on your login dashboard