Godaddy Economy Hosting, WordPress, & Permalinks

Posted by admin on February 18, 2009

I ran into an issue I’d never experienced before and thought I’d share this new snippet of knowledge with you.  I was installing WordPress on a client’s Godaddy Economy Hosting and after changing the permalink settings to a more appealing format, which is usually the first thing I do when installing WordPress,  I discovered that the new urls didn’t work.  The reason this caught me by surprise is that most of the clients I work with have used the Godaddy Deluxe Hosting which doesn’t present this problem.

A quick Google search brought me to Zac Vineyard’s Blog, which provided the exact answer I was looking for.  With the Godaddy Economy Hosting, the .htaccess configurations are updated on the server every hour, on the hour.  So, I simply waited until five minutes past the hour and, true to Zac’s advice, the permalinks began to work.

It appears that many people believe that mod_rewrite doesn’t work with the Godaddy Economy Hosting and are quick to upgrade to the Deluxe package.  But before jumping the gun, take a look at your clock and wait until a few minutes past the next hour to check your .haccess changes.