GoDaddy Hosting Server Configuration for WordPress - Review your domain configuration before uploading WordPress
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At this time, you now have the hosting setup and are ready to install WordPress. The next step is to upload your files to your hosting computer. This process can be done using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The concept is simple; you will use what we call an "FTP program," and then select those unzipped WordPress files and themes on your desktop and drag them to your hosting computer in GoDaddy. This is only possible if you have successfully logged in using an FTP account.
There are several free FTP programs that you can use. For example there is a free version of "Core FTP," which is simple, fast and reliable. Visit http://www.coreftp.com/ for more information.
This is the end of this tutorial. To confirm that you have correctly followed the procedures above, you should see GoDaddy display the information as shown in the screen shot below (take note of those comments in red). You can find this information by logging in to your GoDaddy account and then looking under "My Hosting Account," and then clicking "Manage account" on your domain control panel.
As a summary, here are the important points:
Operating system: should be set to "Linux;" other operating systems will run it, but wordpress.org recommends Linux because this is the most stable one for WordPress.
PHP version should be set to 4.x
There should be at least one correctly installed MySQL database.
Domain name: This should display the domain on which you would like WordPress to be installed. You might incorrectly configure domain names if you have several domain names in your account.
If there are problems with the above data, there must be a problem with the configuration, and it is highly recommended that you go back to the above procedures and fix things before WordPress is uploaded to the server.
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