Setting Up a Custom PHP.INI File on GoDaddy Hosting

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I’ve gotten a number of e-mails in response to a comment I made on a post about installing WordPress on GoDaddy hosting. Given the response I’ve gotten, I thought it was a good idea to provide my PHP.INI file that I’ve set up to other people looking for this. You can download it below.

The file is a complete PHP.INI file with all the configuration options you’d find in a full PHP installation. I’ve changed a few key settings that I found most important, such as max upload size and post size, allowing for high resolution photos to be uploaded.

If you have questions or suggestions about other ways to customize this file further, please leave a comment on this post. Thanks.

GoDaddy PHP.INI

I am no longer using GoDaddy hosting and as such have not maintained this file to account for changes to GoDaddy’s hosting platform.  If anyone has corrections or modifications to this file that they recommend, feel free to email them to me and I’ll update the file as necessary.
  • http://aresforum.net David

    Hi,
    Thanks for the php.ini file.

    I do have a question, those values you changed, besides the upload and max values, will my site still be as secure?

  • Tim

    I am really hoping you can help. I am having problems with my mail function; basically I am running tikiwiki, which requires users to register. The registration email however can’t be sent, as something is going wrong with the php mail function. I tried altering the php.ini file as suggested, but still no luck. Any advice?

    Thanks.

  • http://aresforum.net Clyde

    Hi Tim,
    i’m not real keen on Tikiwiki but, heres what my php.ini file looks like for mail functions.

    http://img103.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mailfunctionsmw3.jpg

    What i do and did was, not upload my php.ini. I went to my cgi admin looked at the php they had, then compared the two making adjustments.

    I’m not real sure how optimized this php.ini file he has here, due to the fact my site has been loading slow with his uploaded. Granted it is a huge site.

  • http://www.christiaanconover.com/ Christiaan

    My main focus when I edited this file for using with GoDaddy was increasing the upload size limit. If anybody has found ways that optimize it further, please let me know and I’ll publish them.

  • http://www.lorintackett.com Lorin Tackett

    Massively appreciated. Needed to turn register_globals off. This did the trick.

  • Jane Jonas

    This really helped me too! Thanks!

  • http://happyhardik.blogspot.com happyhardik

    Hi,

    I have mistakenly deleted my default php.ini file on godaddy windows hosting, if I upload your php.ini file, will there be any problem? or will any feature stop working??

    Thanks in advance!

  • reactlab

    If you are on godaddy and running php5 then the ini filename needs to be called: php5.ini. More at godaddy support: http://help.godaddy.com/article/1085

  • Deepa

    thanx!
    Its a great support to give php.ini for Godaddy

    Highly oblised!

  • http://theleadtree.com zack

    it appears as though the zip file is corrupt cause I can’t open it?

  • Andy

    I'm having the same problem as Zack. ZIP file isn't opening.

  • Andy

    I'm having the same problem as Zack. ZIP file isn't opening.

  • http://www.cconover.com/ Christiaan Conover

    I checked into it, and it does appear to be corrupt. I'll fix that and post it up again. Thanks for the tip!

  • http://www.cconover.com/ Christiaan Conover

    I've fixed the issue with the corrupt file, it should be working properly now. Let me know if it's still having problems.

  • http://www.joinedbro.com JoinedBro Web Services

    Thanks ,it is very helpful.

  • http://www.joinedbro.com

    I upload this file to my godaddy hosting and getting following error “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”
    Can anyone help me?

  • http://twitter.com/ShawnRMclean Shawn Mclean

    Yo dude, this is missing the Mysql ifnormation:

    Database Error: Unable to connect to the Database: The MySQL adapter ‘mysql’ is not available.

  • http://www.christiaanconover.com/ Christiaan Conover

    Try using the mysqli adapter instead.