Quick and Dirty Setup Guide

Use firefox with godaddy gives less problems

Login to you godaddy account Select the domain you want to manage In the top right corner, click the

my account button select web hosting

Click on manage account on the hosting account you want to manage It should take you to the home page which gives you options like (your files, your application, your domains, your mail)

Under databases, select sql server On the sql server page select create database Enter your database name/username and password details and click ok

It’s going to take a few minutes for the database to set up (just keep hitting refresh if your impatient)

When the database is setup click the pencil icon on the right side under the actions heading

When that page loads up make a note of the server details Return to the sql server page and select the blue link label that says manage via web admin

Enter the username and password you just use to create your sql database

When the database admin section loads up, select the query analyzer.

This gives you the option to import a sql file.

Use that option to import the sql file in the setup/ms sql/ folder of the BlogEngine.Net web code that you downloaded.

Setting up the connection in the web config file :

Transfer all your files that you got from downloading BlogEngine.Net to the godaddy web server via ftp program of your choice or you can try and use the ftp client provided by godaddy

When all the files are finished transferring, navigate to the godaddy file manager . When the file manager loads up, check beside the App_Data folder.

Click the permissions button at the top of the widget, uncheck inherit and check read/write.

To make things easier to find, change the file manager page size to 50 and refresh Check the web.config file and click the edit button that will become enabled at the top.

Edit time:

Make sure that your customErrors mode is equal “On” or “Remote Only”

Now its time to use all that info that you hopfully stored in notepad.

Find the connection string section of the web config file and ender the info

Save the config file changes and close the window.

Ok now here is the tricky part:

For some strange reason , since the settings of BlogEngine.Net defaults Enable HTTP Compression and Compress WebResource.axd to true, firefox or chrome wont work. With chrome you might see some form of life from your website but thats it, you wont be able to log in.

So you have to use internet explorer. I know that might hurt a couple of die hard chrome/firefox users but you just have to bite the bullet long enough to uncheck those settings. Uncheck those nifty compression options, save the settings and you should be all set.

Note:

If after you configure your web.config file and your page still doesn’t load up, try giving your root folder read/write permissions and run your page for the first time. If it works then go and change the root folder permissions back to its default read only settings. The App_Data folder needs read/write permissions so make sure thats enabled.