Manual Install WordPress on GoDaddy 2G Web Hosting Plan

You may got this message "This application is NOT compatible with any of your hosting plans" when attempt to install WordPress on GoDaddy 2G Web Hosting. If you did not want to upgrade to 4G plan, you can manual install a latest version of WordPress by yourself.

1. Make sure the setting for PHP version is 5.3 in Programming Languages section.
2. Create MySQL database for WordPress from your GoDaddy Web Hosting control panel. Here the database name is same as user.
3. Download the latest stable release of WordPress (Version 3.4.2) here.
4. Unzip the archive, modify wp-config-sample.php as instructed in Famous 5-Minutes Install page.
5. Upload to GoDaddy web hosting.

If you experience the Http error 500, check your wp-config.php to make sure the database user name has no @ sign (myusername not myusername@127.0.0.1 for example)

Install WordPress 3.1.3 on Ubuntu 11.04

WordPress is web application you can use to create a beautiful blog or website. This is an open source software. You can get it free at http://wordpress.org/download/ . Before you install WordPress on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), make sure you already install on your Linux machine: Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP).

1. Unzip wordpress-3.1.3.zip to a specified.

2. Make the virtual path for Apache web server:
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
add a new line:
Alias /wordpress /home/yourusername/wordpress
and
restart sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. Type http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/readme.html on your browser to read some instruction.

4. Create MySQL database and user for WordPress

mysql -u root -p
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> create database wordpress;
mysql> INSERT INTO user (Host,User,Password) VALUES('localhost','wpuser',PASSWORD('wppass'));
mysql> grant all privileges on wordpress.* to wpuser@localhost;
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> exit;

5. chmod -c 777 -R ~/wordpress

6. Type http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php to install.
If you got this error message: "Error establishing a database connection", make sure user name and password are correct. It took me almost an hour to figure it out. For some reason, my MySQL password for wpuser@localhost is empty instead of a specified password that I set when I create a MySQL user account.