Drupal 8 Install at GoDaddyBeta 12 Install for Shared Hosting

Apache 2.4.12

Nothing to see here, move along . . .

MySQL 5.5.3

There is not a hard requirement for the MySQL version.Set up user name and password: username, password.Add a new database: database name or choose existing DB.Add user to database with All Privileges.

cPanel Hosting — Databases — MySQL Databases

PHP 5.5.9

Beta 12 requires PHP version 5.5.9 (5.6 is strongly recommended) with CURL version 7.35. PHP Data Objects (PDO) must be activated, too. There are some trick as to how this needs to be set (see https://www.drupal.org/requirements/php#8 for details). Certain PHP ini settings that were used in version 5.3 are not longer valid such as ‘magic_quotes_gpc’, magic_quotes_runtime’ and ‘safe_mode’. PHP Data Objects (PDO) must be activated, too. Change PHP version from 5.4 (native) to 5.5. Increase memory to 512MB.

More PHP Related Settings The extensions that are emboldened are available in cPanel —

<?php $required_extensions = array( 'date', 'dom', 'filter', 'gd', 'hash', 'json', ‘mbstring’, 'pcre', 'pdo', 'session', 'SimpleXML', ‘SPL', ‘spl_types’, 'tokenizer', 'xml', );?>

Once again, only the above required extensions listed in bold are settable in GoDaddy cPanel.

In cPanel, setup a username and password for the database created by Instalatron. Add the user to the database with all permissions active. In Drupal setup, use this name/password and set the hostname in the Advanced submenu.

After the setup, there was one warning message, that “Trusted Host Settings” were not configured in settings.php. Correcting this requires editing of the file.

From Drupal Install Note the warning message —