Just let me know how much you're wanting for it to work, would prefer we could talk on skype. Been messing with this all day sadly, and no luck.

Hi there,

I will have some free time tomorrow european evening, could probably help you out with your problem. I got web programming experience but I dont really know what modules you exactly need working and Im not very familiar with phpfox so Im unable to give you fixed prices.

Typicaly currently people at jsp donate me 50fg per hour for helping, thats more of a "thank you donation" than real payment. So Im sure we can work something out together easily.

Let me know if interested.

Ty I may be interested then, what I need shouldn't take more than an hour and willing to pay much more than 50fg. Anyways to be more specific..

I need to Install phpfox to my site using windows through Godaddy.
I've tried using filezilla to chmodd 777, but obviously can't do that with windows, so that didn't work.
Been messing with the permission feature through godaddy, but from what I've seen, all those options are already ticked.
So basically the step when I type in the browser "www.mywebsite.com/install" nothing happens, it just redirects me to my site.

chmod through filezilla should work

is there a file called install? try maybe install.php?

777 while installing
755 directories after install
544 files after install

e/
if you can't chmod through filezilla ask them to chmod for you or use a service they provide, I've never worked with godaddy to that extent

This post was edited by 0n35 on Oct 9 2013 12:57pm

if hosting was cheap and you trust me to share login details I can login and see myself whats wrong. pm me if thats the case.

Now its hard to say, maybe php engine is not configured, or files are put into wrong location, or installation instruction is for different version, domain redirects into wrong directory or some setting at godaddy is not set to what it should be, are there any interesting logs?

Also try to put somewhere a small php file to check if its working.

These are basic things to check.

Ty for the reply. After doing some research though I found that me hosting under windows is asking for more complications than I need for godaddy using phpfox. I'm going to switch the hosting plan to Linux most likely.
Few new questions though.
1. If I switch from Windows to Linux, and install PhPfox, then switch back to windows, would I run into any complications?
2. Do hosts typically let you switch back and forth between plans like this? IE, from windows, to linux, then back to windows.
3. Lastly, is there any reason I should choose windows over linux, or vise versa? ((Very new to this, and in all honestly the only reason I chose windows was because my OS is windows, but it sounds like that can mean nothing.))

1. PHPFox will work on either OS-based FTP/webserver. I don't think you will find more success with installing PHPFox after switching to Linux. https://www.google.com/search?q=phpfox+on+windows+server
2. Is googling a challenge for you? https://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+change+os+hosting+type
3. Choosing what OS you use for hosting is an endless discussion about security, opinions and whatnot, it won't matter what you pick unless there's an advanced feature (read: not anything related to PHPFox) you require which only exist on one OS.

I'm pretty sure you should use Windows Explorer for connecting to your FTP. (Google that if you don't know how)
That way, you may be able to edit Windows permissions for the different files.

Anyways, THAT shouldn't be necessary. You should be able to set permissions in the Godaddy FTP Web Interface, perhaps you made a mistake?

This post was edited by eagl3s1ght on Oct 9 2013 04:15pm

Operating system depends what technology your site uses.

quote from godaddy site:



Now look at your product name: "phpfoxcamp"

php part means that you will be probably better with linux.



Given that quote above not sure if they even let you configure php on windows plan.

Php can be installed on Windows (especially programmers install php on their local windows for testing purposes) but about 95% production php sites runs on Linux.

linux plans are also usually cheaper or they pack more features for free that are paid extra on windows plans.

In servers Windows means extra license costs and limitations, resource usage, virus risk and strange things happening from time to time that noone can explain.

Unless one uses .net, which only runs on windows, in that case windows server is a must

of course everybody is welcome to make his own decision but if somebody asks me for advice I always say: go for linux if possible

This post was edited by Ironfister on Oct 9 2013 04:15pm

Thank you. I've been googling information for the past 3 days, I admit though the second question I asked was a pretty easy thing to google. With that said, I still may switch to Linux simply because I'm finding out that it's more fitting for the type of site I want to run.



Thank you. And what you're saying is pretty much exactly what I'm reading. I'm going to go ahead and switch to Linux now, and once it migrates, I'll see how I progress then.

Again ty all for the help, hopefully this will work.