Posts Tagged ‘Godaddy’

Godaddy and Gzip Support

September 8th, 2009

I found out today that Godaddy doesn’t support Gzip compression. After months of trying to get Gzip or any other type of compression to work I finally broke down and emailed support (I hate contacting support because they never seem to answer my question). Here was my conversation with them:

Hello,

Is the mod_gzip module installed and enabled on my server? What version of Apache is installed?

Walt

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Plugin Install asks for FTP Login

July 25th, 2009

Today I ran into an interesting problem when I tried installing a plugin for wordpress. This morning I tried to install a new plugin that I had found in the article “9 SEO Plugins Every Wordpress Blog Should Have” on Problogger.net, Nofollow Case by Case. I was immediately prompted for “Connection Information” or FTP login. I was completely baffled because I had not installed any wordpress updates and the night before I had installed several plugins.

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Wordpress E-Mail Notification Will Not Work

July 24th, 2009

I have my Wordpress setup with Godaddy hosting on an IIS7 server. I have run into the problem of email notifications not working. I finally found one article on the internet here that lead me to the solution.

Problem: Email not working when comments are posted. Godaddy and IIS7.

Solution: install WP-Mail-SMTP Plugin and set “relay-hosting.secureserver.net” as the smtp server