Not sure if anyone can help on this, but since moving to a new hosting company (GoDaddy) I'm getting occasional internal server errors (500) as I move around within the site doing tasks. It is always transitory, as - whenever it occurs - if I simply repeat whatever it was I did things are fine. I've setup the PERFORMANCE section of Drupal to optimize things as much as I can, and there are minimal people on the site at the time these errors occur. Beginning to think it is some sort of slow server response problem like what I've run into with other hosting companies in the past.

Is the only effective way to run a Drupal install is through a VPS type account? Those are quite a bit more expensive than shared hosting, but that seems to be the only alternative to long term happiness! Rather frustrated on this as I certainly don't have the budget to do lots of trial and error testing with hosting company after hosting company to find one that works as it should...

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ScoutBaker’s picture

Shared hosting has significant limits. You never know exactly how many othe rsites are on the server. What resources are being used. The list goes on. If you have a lot of modules (no we can't tell you what a lot is, it's subjective) you may be running into processor timeouts on the host. You need to see what tools are available from your host to track down those sorts of issues.

itsnotsohot’s picture

maybe we're running into one another on GoDady's lovely shared hosting service.

Since it's a new install, I'm going to kil and start over tomorrow with the fewest possible modules to get to job done. It was just perfect, I removed a module, added the mobile module and poof started getting 500 errors.

IreneKraus’s picture

I went through and removed about 4-5 modules that were nice but not vital. Have about 60 all told installed, which are necessary to how the site is to function. Can't see how I can cut back further! Still getting the errors every so often with no clue as to cause or why...

Irene Kraus a.k.a. The Computer Lady

GDHosting’s picture

Irene Kraus,

This is something that our support staff can take a look at. They'll need some more details including a screenshot and times the internal error is occurring. You can locate Go Daddy support info here: http://www.godaddy.com/community

Andrew44’s picture

I've had this 500 error on and off for a while now, maybe the last two weeks. I have run the same database etc on another server and have never had a problem yet I'm getting this 500 error several times a day with godaddy hosting. I'm not a drupal expert by any means, very new to it but I don't understand how a site can be fine one minute and then not the next? I've only got a few users so it's not getting hammered.

I called godaddy several times and have supplied screen shots too. The initial response was there was/is no problem with our servers. They didn't say where they thought the problem might be but if I paid more money I could see the logs for myself!

In reply asked whether they'd looked at the .htaccess etc which they didn't respond to.

I then asked again and got an apache log which I've posted at the bottom of this post.

Does this log mean anything to anyone becomes godaddy don't want me to help.

Thanks in advance,

my.home.ip.address - - [09/Sep/2009:06:48:04 -0700] "POST www.mysite.org/node?q=node&destination=node
HTTP/1.1" 500 619 "http://www.mysite.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6; en-us
) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9"
my.home.ip.address - - [09/Sep/2009:06:48:49 -0700] "POST www.mysite.org/node?q=node&destination=node
HTTP/1.1" 500 619 "http://www.mysite.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US
; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"
my.home.ip.address - - [09/Sep/2009:06:49:49 -0700] "POST www.mysite.org/admin?q=admin&destination=adm
in HTTP/1.1" 500 619 "http://www.mysite.org/admin" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.
6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"
my.home.ip.address - - [09/Sep/2009:06:51:09 -0700] "POST www.mysite.org/taxonomy/term/6?q=taxonomy/te
rm/6&destination=taxonomy%2Fterm%2F6 HTTP/1.1" 500 619 "http://www.mysite.org/taxonomy/term/6" "M
ozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"
my.home.ip.address - - [09/Sep/2009:06:53:55 -0700] "POST www.mysite.org/node?q=node&destination=node
HTTP/1.1" 500 619 "http://www.mysite.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6; en-us
) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9"
my.home.ip.address - - [09/Sep/2009:06:54:31 -0700] "POST www.mysite.org/node?q=node&destination=node
HTTP/1.1" 500 619 "http://www.mysite.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US
; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"
my.home.ip.address - - [09/Sep/2009:06:57:20 -0700] "POST www.mysite.org/node?q=node&destination=node
HTTP/1.1" 500 619 "http://www.mysite.org/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US
; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"
my.home.ip.address - - [09/Sep/2009:06:58:36 -0700] "POST www.mysite.org/poll?q=poll&destination=poll
HTTP/1.1" 500 619 "http://www.mysite.org/poll" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; e
n-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2"

IreneKraus’s picture

My problems is that the errors occur on such a random basis. Sometimes it is while being logged in while a few others are on the site and when simply viewing content. In most cases, however, it is while I am the ONLY person logged in and I am doing something internal to Drupal. Then again, exactly what it is I am doing varies quite a bit too! This makes pinpointing exactly what is causing the problem quite difficult.

Take the cebug.org site, which is set as an add-on domain within my account. This is a community site intended for use by those in this region (computer user group). A few days ago during our monthly meeting, a few of us were logged in all at the same time and attempting to generate content. I have FCKEditor installed as a WYSIWYG editor, and most of those present where simply writing whatever it was they wanted to post into the editor. However, in almost every instance they got the 500 error on attempting to save their written post. (Meaning, whatever they had written was lost.) Needless to say, this made those involved rather upset!

I have no objection to generating a support request thru GoDaddy, if they will listen and really understand this *IS* an issue with their servers.

Irene Kraus a.k.a. The Computer Lady

pbharrin’s picture

I am getting the same error when I try to access services with json
here is the command I used

curl -d method=system.connect http://harringtonbio.com/services/json

Someone else recommended commenting out some lines in .httaccess I tried that but it didn't work. Actually it killed the whole site. Another suggestion was a custom php.ini file.

The service worked when I accessed it through the Drupal services browser.

Any help would be appreciated.

IreneKraus’s picture

After a lot of back and forth with GoDaddy, I got my account moved to a new server. These errors have not completely vanished, but they have dropped significantly to the point they are quite rare. Clearly, part of the problem has to do with someone on the same server using too much bandwidth. Not sure why, but it seems GoDaddy doesn't do a very good job of monitoring those on shared web accounts. At least things are livable with my sites now, but still not 100% happy!

Irene Kraus a.k.a. The Computer Lady

Patricia_W’s picture

I only get this error when I attempt to log on as admin. I'm using Drupal 6.13. Any suggestions? It just started to happen today and I have not made any changes to the site (at least recently.)

Patricia W

IreneKraus’s picture

What I would suggest is getting your account moved to a new server. In my case, this almost eliminated the errors. Though they are not gone, I can live with those few that do pop up. Really do think most of it has to do with the number of other accounts on the server, allocation of resources, and if those ON the server respect those amounts.

Irene Kraus a.k.a. The Computer Lady

dailypress’s picture

Im not sure if it was a 500 error but I also got errors randomly and it was because I had deleted the tmp folder which was empty.

In case you deleted the tmp folder because saw no use, remember to not touch it and if you removed it you must add a tmp folder to the root folder.

This was my issue a while ago and it took me forever to figure it out. I actually changed my hosting company because of that blaming my hosting company.

in other words: add a folder name tmp in the root directory: example.com/tmp
upload it and see if it still occurs. let me know if thats the problem!

IreneKraus’s picture

While you are making an important point, this was not the cause of the issue in my case. The tmp folders are where they are supposed to be. (I'm using a multi-site install, so the temporary folder for each site has a different name.)

Irene Kraus a.k.a. The Computer Lady

markusa’s picture

I have a universal account with Godaddy which allows you to assign unlimited domains to sub-directories with one account. I have several working drupal installations that work correctly including www.jackrabbitwebpro.com. The drupal install is in a subdirectry of my hosting account and www.jackrabbitwebpro.com is pointed to that subdirectory. No problem.

I then tried to do exactly the same thing with my personal blog. I created a subdirectory, installed and setup drupal, and posted quite a few posts. But I was accessing through the directory and not the domain I assigned to the subdirectory. My primary domain is younivesally.com and if in my browser i go to http://www.youniverally.com/stonewood/ then the drupal installation works correctly. If I use www.jackrabbithanna.com in the address bar in the browser which is the domain tied to the subdirectory the front page loads but all links, attempts to login, and attempting to navigate to admin directly returns :
"
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log
"

So something about this particular drupal installation isn't able to route correctly or something. Drupal 6.14.

Does this information ring any bells with all you'll who have been tackling or have tackled this problem??

markusa’s picture

It ends up that it was Clean URLs that was causing the server error 500. I logged in as admin reading the site via www.youniversally.com/stonewood and disabled Clean URLS. And Wha-La.....Now when I point the browser to the website via address www.jackrabbithanna.com then everything works properly.

For some reason on GoDaddy's ultimate hosting account when I sight uses Clean URLS and is accessed by a domain name linked to a subdomain of the account then I get the server error 500.

Very strange..

Anybody know why Clean URLS would cause problems in this situation???

Now my site www.jackrabbitwebpro.com is a subdomain on my universally account www.youniverally.com/jackrabbitwebpro....clean urls are enabled and the site works fine. www.jackrabbitwebpro.com uses Drupal 6.14.

www.jackrabbithanna.com uses Drupal 6.13

Maybe there was a bug that got worked out between version 6.13 and 6.14

Does any of this information help anyone to think of a way to get the clean url's working on my 6.13 installation?

markusa’s picture

If you are putting your drupal site in a subdomiain then you need to add one line to the .htaccess
after the line
RewriteEngine on

then add this line
RewriteBase /

Clean URLS will work and the error 500 messages will cease.

joeosaka’s picture

Same problem with a site being one among a couple I have in an unlimited hosting account on GoDaddy. After hours of trying to work out where I was going wrong in the update to 6.14 (getting the 500 errors) I came hunting for a solution here. Thank you very much Mark. That one added line from you, and all is beautiful again. Big cheers from across the Pacific.

iparsin’s picture

I spent all day today, first to connect database. And it seemed to be fine as I saw my homepage show up. But not too long, no further pages could be accessed. Everything works great after I found your solution thank you so much. "I am just a designer".

davidw’s picture

Great stuff here. I am trying to help somebody out that is having the same problem. You (hopefully) saved me a lot of troubleshooting!

Mars2012’s picture

I have my drupal 6.16 instaled in a shared Linux host in Godaddy.

My problem persists in a random way.
My Drupal is instaled in the root.

I don't understand why it works fine for one minute and in the next minute it tooks between 2 - 85 seconds (or more) to upload an entire webpage or the error occurs.

I have tried to disable the clean url add the line RewriteBase /, also as admin and anonymus user the result is the same. Nothing of this works in my website.

I write to Godaddy support and they don't know what to do and I see that this topic was open almost a year ago.
Godaddy don't solve this problem?

What can I do?

markusa’s picture

I travel extensively and use Sprint wireless broadband for my internet.....High speed is spotty and alot of times I'm running less than 1Mbit. It seems like whenever my connection is relatively slow and I am loading several webpages at once or downloading large files that when I try to navigate, but especially edit pages on my drupal website that I get a 500 internal server error....I'm thinking it might have to do with some kind of timeout. Will drupal time out and give an error if it takes to long to recieve a request? Like the guy above it seems that sometimes my sight is just slower than molasses and other times it just zips along....when it takes a long time there's a 50/50 chance of a 500 internal server error

How about taking to long to deliver the results of a request?

I have been round and round with 500 interneal server errors on this site for months now. It started when I installed a incompatible menu module and it deleted all my menu entries in one of the menu tables. The funny thing was though that it slowly deteriorated with 500 internal server errors. The menu table seems to be fine right now.

I'm interesting in keeping the discussion going with all the people having trouble with 500 internal server errors for any number of reasons....there's got to be a common thread somewhere.

Oh masters of Drupal....I beg of you...what wisdom can you offer?

Mars2012’s picture

Hi,
I have a good conection with the internet. All my friends are having the same problem with my webpage.

I have instaled the Boost module in order to increase the performance.

Surfing a bit on the net I found topics which related the same problem.

I think the problem is that Godaddy has a poor host shared service.

Don't you think?

challer’s picture

Having the same issues on a client site hosted at Godaddy. Just talked to a tech support guy and he said the site is fine, somebody else on the server is using up the resources and brings down the server. I like his honesty, he said that's gonna keep happening, it's shared hosting, deal with it. Guess we're moving to a different provider tonight...

Mars2012’s picture

Hi all,

After several weeks with my Godaddy host, finnaly I have a good connection.

It seems they have solved the problem.

We all want to have good services.

Let's start "playing" with our websites and don't waste time with this kind of problems.

Regards

IreneKraus’s picture

About all I can say is I gave up on GoDaddy hosting. Since moving to a new hosting provider a few months ago, I have yet to see any sign of the issue. Think it was something related to their servers. Sorry!

Irene Kraus a.k.a. The Computer Lady

zooterthresden’s picture

for now at least.

thanks so much for this thread. y'all are just the greatest community!

i've spent the better part of the morning searching other threads, changing permissions, deleting modules, checking error logs, and adding or altering lines to the .htaccess file, and nothing *specifically* worked.

however, the advice to add the line to the .htaccess file "RewriteBase /" helped to jar it loose.. [maybe]. i too am running a drupal site out of a subdirectory before it goes live on another server, and that advice finally made the homepage come back online without the 500 error, but that was about all that came back; everything else came up "page not found". i should note that initially, drupal garland [my admin theme] came up and said that the database was temporarily offline, and if i was the site admin, that i should check the settings.php file.

i am a drupal "hobbyist" at best, and not a programmer, but i've been able to work out other snags from reading other forums and such. i'm thankful this somehow just resolved itself, because it felt like i was wading into a quagmire. however, i'll always be nervous that this will happen again, and until this thread gets resolved i'll continue to...

....blame godaddy!

Stocker’s picture

Very often I get an error 500 on my site (template-stock.com).

GD Support answers that they were all OK. Tell us what you do, send logs, etc. No help!

I would move to another hosting.

mattwmc’s picture

I'm on Godaddy shared hosting and a lot of times it takes like 10 + seconds for me to connect to the admin menu/contents etc.

Looking like I am going to be moving soon.

markusa’s picture

Lots of 500 server errors come about when something is wrong with the menu_router table....installing the Devel module is a must for serious work.

Sometimes menu or taxonomy modules make a bunch of entries in the router table.....its often a good idea to rebuild the menu table if you start getting 500 internal server errors..... then try to narrow down which module or combinations of modules is causing the problem....

As to the Godaddy hosting.....My works great now.....except I can't change the php upload limit from the default 2 MB....anyone you uses godaddy and knows how to raise them limit would earn my eternal gratitude if they told me

mattwmc’s picture

Yeah - I raised my limit to 100MB.

You need to upload a php5.ini file to the root. Make sure you are using php5. I used pspad and created a new INI file. Save it as php5

This is what I use:

memory_limit = 50M
post_max_size = 100M
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 100M
memory_limit = 64M

sheath’s picture

I was told to optimize all of my html, css, image files and anything else that might cause a load. Some of the advise even told me to break down Drupal scripts and optimize them.

I took it as a challenge that would take me months to surmount. Five hours later, all pages on my site are loading in less than five seconds on average. I had not even started forming a battle plan yet.

vgulla’s picture

Issue Summary
Here is my situation. I have my dev version of the site on godaddy economy shared linux hosting and that works perfectly fine.

My production live site is on godaddy ultimate shared hosting on linux. I have the same code base on both these places. But the production site is throwing internal server error 500 from the past 3 days. I have the login destination and front page modules installed and this 500 error happens only when users login and being redirected to a different landing page.
I set up such that anonymous users go to http://www.mydomain.com/publics and when logged in on this page, they get redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/landing.

This setup works perfectly fine on the dev site, but in production, I am getting the 500 error when the redirect to landing happens. Once this error is thrown, if I just type any other url of the site, I am getting to those pages fine.

The only difference between the dev and production site is the data in the DB. Both the sites were working fine for many months now and this 500 error has been happening since last 3 days only. Obviously, the godaddy tech support is of no help. THey just said they did some apache update on all servers 3 days ago and have been adamant that it has nothing to do with my issue, but the timing of when my issue started is so close to this update.
They are suggesting I move the site to a different server to test. I am a bit nervous about this and don't want to lose any prod data.

I am getting frustrated with this. Anybody else have this issue? PLEASE HELP. This is what I see in the error log

[Fri Sep 30 10:20:26 2011] [error] [client 59.93.86.42] Premature end of script headers: index.php
[Fri Sep 30 10:21:10 2011] [warn] [client 59.93.86.42] mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 40 seconds
[Fri Sep 30 10:21:10 2011] [error] [client 59.93.86.42] Premature end of script headers: index.php
[Fri Sep 30 10:56:53 2011] [error] [client 59.93.86.42] Premature end of script headers: index.php
[Fri Sep 30 11:21:37 2011] [error] [client 59.93.86.42] Script timed out before returning headers: index.php

What also beats me is that once I get the 500 error on the landing page, I can go to any other page (since I know their paths). So, I thought the issue is with landing page and changed the setting to redirect to one of the other pages that loaded easily. But, even that page is not loading and it throws 500 error. So, I am thinking this may be due to the front page redirect.

mattwmc’s picture

I'm on godaddy Ultimate hosting, too, and getting tons of 500 and 503 errors -just in the last few days.

This is what they told me, but I'm still getting the errors. I also have another drupal install on the same server, and the same thing is happening.

n reviewing the issues you were reporting with your site example.com, it appears that there are key items causing the availability of your site to fluctuate. In the error logs, your site has had some timeout errors related to FastCGI. In order to remedy this issue, we have disabled FastCGI on your account. We have added the following lines of code to your .htaccess file which should be preserved when changes are made to the file:

addhandler x-httpd-php-cgi .php4
addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php
addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php5


After a review, it appears that the contents of the .htaccess file , specifically those related to Apache content negotiation are the root cause of the issue. You will want to review the file to remedy these issues. You may want to refer to the Apache help pages as relates to .htaccess files. 

vgulla’s picture

I have had no luck yet. mattwmc: Were you able to find anything? Which part of htaccess is related to apache content negotiation?

vgulla’s picture

Here is what I found so far.

Upon enabling devel module, I found that there were way too many queries trying to retrieve the URL aliases. I have 60K nodes in my DB and on the homepage, I have a tag cloud and a quicktab block showing forms to add different content types. Each content type has a drop down or autocomplete boxes for node references. It seems the URL alias query is being fired for these dropdowns as well. When I deleted the URL aliases, the 500 error went away. When I removed the quicktab block with all the forms, the page was blazing fast.

Now, how do I go about optimizing the forms quicktab block? Secondly, is there an optimal way to use uRL aliases? I don't want to expose node/### since its not good for SEO

Thanks so much

-vasantha

mattwmc’s picture

Hmmm...I have quick tabs too and had to previously turn off the radioactive module as it was causing too many queries.

I'll run devel and see what I get.

I'm thinking my site is just too big for shared hosting.

zap-admin’s picture

Just wanted to take a second to bash GoDaddy again. I'm suddenly having similar issues with the web site I manage at my "Day Job".... They buy their hosting via a local company that buys their hosting from Godaddy. As of a day and a half ago I noticed I wasn't seeing an email shot to me every 6 hours (I think) telling me that cron had successfully run on the site. I have made no changes to the site in the last week or so, installed no new modules....etc. Just out of the blue it started brain farting.

I have a half dozen or so web sites that I run outside of the day job. I have a VPS with a company called Web Intellects. I found them when I had been having a ton of issues with Dotster hosting.... which is almost as bad as Godaddy from the looks of it.

Right now I can't access pretty much any admin function. Status Report = Internal Server Error screen, User List = Internal Server Error screen, Available Updates = ... yes... the same thing. And it's the same with most everything else on the site. Overall the site is still running so people wanting to look at the products on the site are okay. but I can't even access error logs.... or anything generated by Drupal 6.22. I was going to try and reinstall the core.... but now I'm thinking it's Godaddy's servers after reading through this thread. Total waste of our time. Think I'll copy the site and install it on my VPS to see if it works there under a different domain. Ticks me off....

Sorry I'm not posting any new info here... but I wanted to let people know that these issues are continuing to persist.

zap-admin’s picture

I think there may be another post on this thread that speaks about the same thing but I try to make it a habit to post the final solution to any problem I list on the Drupal site, you know, in case someone else runs into the same thing.

Okay.... the issue I had was fixed by commenting out "Options +FollowSymLinks" in the .htaccess file. The site I speak of has been running for almost 2 years w/o any kind of issue like this. Google what's in quotes to learn more about what it does.... has to do with Symbolic links. Anyway, you can turn this function on in either the httpd.conf file on the web server... or on .htaccess in your hosting account. What I found out after doing some looking online is that if you have it turned on in both places it will screw up everything... aka... lots of 500 Internal Server Errors. Since it had been turned on in my .htaccess file from day 1..... I'm guessing someone flicked it on on the main web server at GoDaddy. The ISP used by my day job co-locates there so they have total control of the actual machine. They told me that they hadn't changed anything but quite frankly.... I don't trust said ISP. Or they don't always know what they're doing .... but as I'm just knowledgeable enough to be dangerous at this point. I can't throw the book at them just yet...LOL. I don't host via this local ISP though... and we'll leave it at that.

Anyway, when I commented out the offending line all was well again in Drupal land.

Take care and thanks to everyone who posted here..... all information is helpful.

Last Note: The site is running Drupal 6.22.... and I am using Quicktabs.

queryblitz’s picture

I have a site on iPage that started throwing errors as soon as I removed .txt from the .htaccess file. Commenting out that line fixed it.

liliy’s picture

Hi, i have found For a full documentation of the schema please refer to
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=42127

following above.... i have fixed www.smdrhk.biz

mattwmc’s picture

I want to give an update on my use of Godaddy and their shared hosting.

All my 500 errors are now gone.

Here's why (posted in a similar thread as well):

The real culprit for a lot of 500 errors on GoDaddy Shared Hosting is really too many database queries.

GoDaddy limits the amount of queries on the database; I've actually had my site shut down by them because of that.

This is caused by having too many modules, and when traffic picks up a bit, the database gets slammed! Of course, Drupal is a resource hog as well.

USE BOOST! - http://drupal.org/project/boost

I can't recommend Boost enough! For example, on GoDaddy's 4G Ultimate Hosting my site was able to handle around 450-600 people an hour. Things would start to crash near or at that level.

Installing Boost, I've now had upwards of 1000+ people on the site an hour -- without ANY problems.

Likewise, I tried one of their VPS 3GB packages -- and it was failing at only 200-300 people! I'm no programmer, so my VPS configs could have been off, but running "top" through SSH showed the MYSQL database to be taking up most of the memory.

I switched back to 4G for $14 or $15 a month (compared to $80 or $90 for the VPS) and things are running a lot smoother.

I probably have around 30 or so modules running now, and also disabled some, including: Glossify, Custom Bread Crumbs and the Related modules.

Again, definitely use Boost as it caches your pages to HTML -- meaning no load on the database (if my understanding is correct).

UPDATE:

Want to give a quick update and say that I spoke too soon. Shortly after I posted the above things started going to crapola again. Can't wait to get the hell off of GoDaddy's servers!

ccshannon’s picture

I'm helping a friend setup a Drupal 7 site on his GoDaddy shared hosting account. I can't even get the install.php process to run past the DB settings page. It gives a 500 Internal Server Error.

On another thread (link to follow) it turns out FastCGI is enabled by default, and that causes lots of 500 errors and sloooowwwwwwww page loads.

Supposedly I can disable FastCGI myself using their web-hosting-admin software, but that is giving me errors, too.

Anyway, for those who are trying to get GoDaddy host to work with Drupal, another thread.... (tried using [#922828] but the link doesn't convert, so ....

http://drupal.org/node/922828