Most recently I was asked to handle a new website (non-profit, like all the others I deal with in my free time) and I'm in the process of migrating it to GoDaddy - this time taking advantage of their hosting as well as domain name management. The site is currently static but with some of the things I expect to need to do with it over the next year or so, I figured I would need some scripting and so I decided to take the plunge and order CFMX 7 as a $2 / month add-on to the basic hosting package ($2.77 / month for a 36 month purchase).

GoDaddy have quite a few tags and functions disabled but for what I expect to need, that should be fine. You get what you pay for.

I'll be blogging about my experiences so you can decide whether or not you would want to use GoDaddy for ColdFusion hosting.

I will say, by way of a caveat, that most all my other sites are on HostMySite (mostly using their Linux Builder+ plan) and for serious, framework-driven ColdFusion development they are an excellent choice in my experience.

I tried it last week and was able to connect to the database successfully via CF.

I'll be working to upload something soon and possibly try out remoting and/or Flex 2 files on it.

I signed up with GoDaddy a few months back. They don't allow custom tags (really!), they disable the cfobject tag and ALL versions of the createObject() function, and because they are running CFMX7 Standard so they can't even attempt to use security sandboxing... Basically it's a totally crippled service which has no flexibility at all, because they won't change any configuration no matter how nicely you ask them :(

After 3 weeks of logging support tickets I eventually asked for a refund for the unused time that I had paid for, which thankfully they were happy to do.

If I didn't require the ability to use objects in CF then it would probably be a very good service. The customer support always answered my questions, so the customer experience was generally good, it's just a shame that their strict security and inflexibility lets them down.

cheers, Justin (www.madfellas.com)

As for their hosting, there are several companies out there offering super-cheap hosting and do not enforce the strict limitations. Viux.com offers 6.96/month MX7 hosting and they only block a handful of tags such as cfexecute,cfcontent,cfdirectory,etc... In fact if anything they leave it far too open (ie: any java, ColdFusion service factory, etc...)! I have used them for over a year and have not found a better dollar/value solution for sites where security is not a big concern. :)

~Dave

If you have a comment about your actual experience with GoDaddy, please add it here. If you have no experience with GoDaddy, do not just comment here to recommend your favorite hosting provider.

Thanx!

I've only recently got BlogCFC going (except my posts are in 2027 i think). I'm still exploring.

In brief, my experiences are;

Customer Support - there isn't any, just automated responses. The KB and FAQs are barron.

Datasources are flakey (I don't know how else to explain it, they just didn't work for the first 3-4 days).

What you get (the upside); - CF Enterprise, in a Sandbox. Most tags enabled. - Custom tags work just fine (it's as Ray said, no CT folder) - CFC's and WebServices are fine, as long as you stick to cfinvoke and init().

Although most tags are enabled (cfdirectory, cffile etc no problem) there are some crippling limitations in their set up. For example: Sandbox security denies access to the temp folder needed for CFFILE(upload). But I suppose that could be intentional. I havent delved in to cfform and remoting yet, but I don't like the odds.

Sean be sure to send them a couple of support questions via email ;) It's an experience.

John, no idea why cfqueryparam would not work with SQL Server. Again, ask on a CF mailing list giving full details of the error you are seeing.

MyBuzzy, yes, you've summarized my experiences and everything I expected about the service. I solved the file upload problem by writing the Simple File Manager app I blogged, which runs locally. I don't want other folks uploading files to my site :)

In general, I'd just say this all underpins the old saw: you get what you pay for. Cheap hosting is cheap hosting.

they have to allow you access to that folder, which they will if you ask .. my problem is is once the file is u/l how do you get to it

open your control panel on the godaddy site in the hosting manager, drill down to the database/access area click the 'create new dsn' button at bottom setup a dsn (after uploading your access.mdb file I think). If it doesn't automatically rename your dsn for you, you may need to do so. It should end in '_accesscf_FusionDB' the user name will be Admin the password will probably be admin or password and you are required to enter one. it seemed to work for me even when I didn't have a password assigned to the file.

fyi, I'm having problems with the flash forms working on their systems. I suspect its more of their funky setup. I'm not sure it is worth hosting with them if I keep having problems like this.

I wanted to post because I can relate to the post by Ryan in regards to Flash forms not working

I think the clear message here is that GoDaddy offers effectively ZERO support for ColdFusion so it really is a case of you get what you pay for.

I would imagine that people who are very comfortable with CFMX configuration and have already had experience with shared hosting issues elsewhere will do OK with GoDaddy but newbies are going to really struggle.

Thanx for all your input folks!

I think this is untrue. Other CF mx7 tags work just fine like cfdocument.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks John

When it comes to Godaddy & CF Hosting, you ' get what you pay for'

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Once logged in, follow these steps:

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I have not tried this yet and since I am new to dynamic web sites I am not really sure what this means. If as you say the DSN-less connections dont work it looks like I am running out of options.

GoDaddy recently released a new version of their economy Windows hosting that does indeed support Access databases.

You first add Coldfusion to the accout (extra fee) and when the plan change is complete (up to 24 hours) you add Access database support. Once the database support is complete (approx 30 minutes) you add the Coldfusion DSN. (approx 30 minutes) Make sure you add a Coldfusion DSN and not a file DSN.

When you run the cfquery you point the datasource to the name of the Coldfusion DSN that was created. Example: <cfquery name="queryname" datasource="username_accesscf_dbname">

Hope this helps.

I followed his instructions and was able to get my Access database working via ColdFusion. Curiously, GoDaddy requires that you create a username and password when you create the ColdFusion DSN. However, if you attempt to use that username/password as parameter settings in your CFQUERY, you'll get an error.

FYI: The verion of my Access file is MS Access 2003.

My situation is this: I am a beginner at website development and have been building a site for the past 4 months using dreamweaver --- hosting at godaddy. Php (msp?) was recommended to me for programming but I found that too difficult to learn in my short window of time and instead opted for coldfusion after taking the recordstore tutorial at adobe -- & learning about recordsets.

I'm developing a sales catalog so my coldfusion needs are basic. Once I felt I understood the recordset jargon I moved on to connecting with godaddy and everything stalled. I have the coldfusion dsn & all but can't get past the RDS block.

If I understand the flow of advice here, it would appear appropriate to create two defined sites on dreamweaver, one connected to godaddy, one connected to the local site (as explored in adobe tutorials, for example).

Then one would create all recordsets in the localhost site and, when finished ---> transfer all the coldfusion language (which I would not otherwise know how to write) to the remote godaddy site and hand-change the DSN info from a coldfusion administor DSN to godaddy's DSN source (in my case, access).

Then, theoretically, the remote site would work just fine (minus the blocked coldfusion codes)?

Is this the way around this RDS barrier? Or are there new nightmares ahead? Would love to hear from an advanced programmer about this RDS problem/solution.

Conversely, their Java support is woefully lacking. Functionality such as uploading pictures for a catalog goes pretty smoothly in PHP, but not at all with Java. I'm convinced that Godaddy's paranoia is based on a lack of understanding Java rather than an overt effort to keep simple things like file uploads at bay. I should mention that the uploading issue of which I speak relates to software needed to upload individual client pictures. Uploading the same files into the same folders with conventional ftp clients works smoothly.

The only real complaint I have with Godaddy is that I have spent a fair amount of time, and a little money, learning the never ending limitations of Godaddy's services. They could spare a lot people's time and effort if they would just say, for example, "we do not allow Java software to upload files. To do so you will either have to use PHP software or you will have to upload the individual files via ftp."

With that and similar limitations clearly stated in their FAQ's, etc., people could either accept the limitations or go on to another ISP rather than finding out the hard way.

Insofar as Godaddy support; I have found that perhaps 50% of the time the support person knows their stuff and can resolve things promptly. However, (and this is far worse than the worse of the remaining 50%), I encountered a "new" support analyst that didn't know what a file was; nor a folder; etc., so I politely hung up and called back and found that the next analyst did. It's a luck of the draw kind of thing, but even my previous experience didn't prepare me for speaking to someone that was somehow put into a support position without even rudimentary knowledge of what he supposed to be supporting. To his credit, he was friendly; "confident" and perhaps by now, expert.

I noticed that many people on the forum have had problems with connecting their ColdFusion app to their Access database. I'm experiencing the same problem and I can't for the life of me figure out what the problem is. I set up the ColdFusion DSN properly in the Control Panel and have matched the DSN in my app in the Datasource attribute. My access database is also properly set up in the appropriate directory. For some reason, I get the "Data source marmes13_accesscf_desafiandobrasil could not be found." I really can't figure out why. Can someone help?

I just found this blog today so this answer to dgrafx is a little late. Yes you can schedule tasks. I have tasks running daily and emailing notices out to members. Just be sure to document well what you schedule because you will never be able to view your scheduled tasks and Godaddy won't look them up in CF Administrator for you either.

I have had my sites go down twice due to MySQL DB or CF DSN problems as best I could tell. Godaddy support passed my problem along and it was fixed within an hour of the call. What I didn't like is that no one can tell me why. I called back and gave them my ticket number and that information is not available. Weird.....

My latest problem is form validation with CFINPUT. Does this work for anyone else? It works great in development on my PC. On Godaddy the form still works but there is no validation or if field is required no message is displayed and the form just processes like I was using html input tags. Godaddy says they support CFFORM, but I can't find any information on CFINPUT.

Copy the entire CFIDE/scripts directory into your site. Second, add the scriptSrc attribute to the CFForm tag that maps to the location of the CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js. By adding the mapping and these files into your site, the JavaScript that CFForm generates will be able to find the files it is looking for. Make sure to keep the exact same directory structure "CFIDE/scripts". In the end, my form looked like this:

<cfform method="post" name="myForm" scriptSrc="CFIDE/scripts/cfform.js">

And my directories looked like this: index.cfm CFIDE -- scripts ----cfform.js ... and all the other files

So I guess Godaddy works great for everything I need it to do......so far.

If you want to use CFCs only you can change the source code to use CFINVOKE instead.

I don't know much about sandbox security... I don't think it's possible to allow createObject() for CFCs and not JAVA. Anyone?

any help would be great! cause no one has the answers.. woodrowgraphics.com/pmn I'm not tryin to advertise please

Ofcourse you can change "newsletters" to whatever directory you want to upload the files to. "FileName" is the name I used, in this application, for the file which was uploaded in the original form <input type="file" name="FileName" ...> tag. Does that help?

not to keep dropping problems on you guys, but the last small thing I have wrong is, I randomly get "Error Executing Database Query" and it points to my Request.DSN varible, that I have in my Application.cfm file. but when I refresh, every thing works, it's not a fatal error. Could it be that the server times out? and doesn't find my Application.cfm file? should I hard code my DSN into all my pages?

I was planing on doin a global find and replace, to change Request.Dsn to my Godaddy Dsn, but when I change my Dsn in Application.cfm and in my CF-Admin, Dreamweaver tells me it can't find the Old Dsn name when I try to use my bindings panel or server behaviors, Dreamweaver doesn't update somehow. and I can't remember if any where that I hard coded the Dsn into Dreamweaver?

thanks a million for your help guys!

Has anyone had any experience with this error message when accessing a cfm page hosted on GoDaddy?: "The Server Has Encountered an Internal Error"... "JRun closed connection". This occurred today on a client's website and it presented anytime any cfm page was called... even a testpage that had no <cf tags> in it. so the Coldfusion Server was actually down it seems. The html pages worked though. Any ideas on why this would happen so I could make any suggestions to GoDaddy to prevent it again. It only lasted about 10 minutes as far as I know. Oh, yeah this is a shared windows hosting server. Any suggestions or advise welcome! thanks

To find and replace the DSN in your dreamweaver files go into "edit" menu and select "find and replace" (I think you already were doing that) but be sure to select the option of finding and replacing in all files in current site. It will do it!

Or if you aren't hard-coding in all the files... are you placing your global stuff in Application.cfc , rather than Application.cfm?

This goes for everyone in this thread - you are getting exactly what you pay for: a cheap, shared hosting service. It may be just fine for personal / hobbyist sites where uptime and security are not critical - but it is not a robust solution on which to base a business. You need to pay the extra and get a VPS (Virtual Private Server) or a dedicated server or look at colocation or managed server hosting (i.e., $$ or $$$ or $$$$)

I tried doing a find and replace, and I hard coded my DSN into each of my quereys, but I still get random "Error Executing Database Query." it's not an error that stops the site from working, cause if you refresh the page, everything is ok. untill you stop on a page for a while, then the next page you try, might error.

I was using an Application.cfm file to store my DSN variable, I tried using an Application.cfc file, but I was getting alot of weird errors, (yes, I removed my Application.cfm file when trying this) not sure what I should be doing with the cfc file over a cfm.

I'd like to clear up this random query problem, it's like the site times out almost, when I navigate the site quickly, I seem to get the error less, if I stop for a 20-30 seconds and read a page, next page I go to tends to throw an error.

http://www.peacefulmountainnursery.com

I'm a developer novice and am learning as I go. My website is : deadlyvintage.com. I have windows shared hosting on godaddy(the deluxe level) with cold-fusion enabled. Database is Access. I have a coldfusion dsn enabled. I built my basic pages in dreamweaver mx, using remote connection to Godaddy. To get around the RDS flap, I downloaded a developers version of coldfusion and built my dynamic coding locally. Copied my basic master/slave coldfusion pages into my working website. The coldfusion pages have the generic connect string of '<cfquery name="catalog" datasource="mysite_accesscf_mydatabase">'.

I keep getting this error: Error Executing Database Query. Could not find file 'C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\bin\mydatabase.mdb'.

I haven't explored playing with the hosting manager to try to solve this. After leaving questions at the dreamweaver forum and a coldfusion forum about this, I was advised that the problem is with godaddy. I've talked to godaddy support many times. They seem friendly but rarely are knowledgable about database connections. Nevertheless, they insist it's a scripting problem.

I don't know if anyone here has met this particularissue? Could there be hidden connection strings in the dreamweaver files that are pointing back to the original local connection?

I'm hesitant to spend extra money on a dedicated host -- I've been trying to get my database to connect for 3 months. It's been enormously frustrating.

Alternatively, might there be a way to connect via Asp and still use coldfusion? Someone suggested this earlier but it hasn't been addressed. Betsy

Thanks all

Does anyone know how to create mapping? and what will be the alternate solution if i cant create a mapping?

I'm a newbie with Cold Fusion so bear with me. I've done everything the way they say to do it on GoDaddy's help files. I'm using code that is working on another server we use. The page I'm trying to get to work is http://www.wallysworld.com/portfolio_01.cfm. I'm using the following to connect: <cfquery datasource="mssqlcf_wallyt " name="list"> SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE service_type = 'web' AND active = 1 ORDER BY display_order </cfquery>

"mssqlcf_wallyt "

I've tried with and without the space between the t and the ". No luck. Yes, mssqlcf_wallyt is the exact name they generated for the Cold Fusion dsn.

Anyone with insight and tolerance of a new Cold Fusion user, please help. I've gotten zero help from GoDaddy, and I'm ready to cancel my hosting accounts with them.

Wally

P.S. Their tech support sent a note that said, "Unfortunately, online support cannot provide tutorial or troubleshooting information regarding custom scripting or coding." Man, does that make me feel like I'm the stupidest guy on the planet.

Oh, and tech support from GoDaddy helped me out with it. I gave them the whole error via email and one of them came back with help on tracking it down.

Thanks all who responded.

Wally

I tried godaddy and all I have to say is that their customer admin screens are horrible! It seems like they combined about 5 different applications for the site. Every screen is very different. Not too high on the usability factor.

I will say that reliability and speed have been fine.

Dreamweaver and CFEclipse can't detect "bad code" because I'm talking about poorly programmed code, not syntactically incorrect code. If it was just a syntax error, the code would not run. If it is poorly programmed, it can be very inefficient and that can use up server resources and bring the server to its knees.

With shared servers, you can have a hundred users all on one server. It doesn't take much badly behaved code amongst those users to cause problems...

The GoDaddy control panel does NOT allow you to create your own DSN name(type in exactley what you would like it to be). So it is generated by them and kept a secret.

I was told they would have to contact a "developer" to find out what my DSN name is and email it to me, which could take 24 to 72 hours! Unbelievable.... He said, "we have changed our control panel, just today, and for some reason the DSN name is not showing up on it."

I was on that panel a couple days ago and did not see any DSN name listed, only that it had been successfully created. I did not try to actually run any coldfusion code on my site until today..

I have tried everything I could think of that it might be, and my CFC errors saying that my coded datasource cannot be found.

Been trying "mydomainname_mysql_databasename", "mydomainname_mysqlcf_databasename", and a slew of other combinations to no avail.. :(

I ended up here because I found more helpful info about using a MySQL database with CF on HostMySite.com than I did on GoDaddy's site LOL

CF DSN ="mysql_mydatabasename.dsn"

The guy also said I do NOT need to submit any username or password along with the DSN name in the query.

Therefore, the following code should work, but it DOES NOT!!

<cfquery datasource="mysql_mydatabasename.dsn" name="idontwork" result="results"> SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE Number="100" ORDER BY Number </cfquery> <cfdump var="#idontwork#"> <cfdump var="#results#">

The code works fine on my developing test machine at home when I use the DSN name that I made in the CF administrator on my own personal testing CF server (NOT GoDaddy's).

He simply told me, all we can do is provide you with the DSN name, it is up to you to be able to use it properly in your CF coding....

Does anyone reading this use CF on GoDaddy with a MySQL database and can they confirm the DSN format of "mysql_mydatabasename.dsn" as being the correct CF DSN name? If I can't get this resolved I will have to cancel my hosting service with GoDaddy and find someone else... This is like paying for a golf membership and not being allowed to play golf on the course!

The following is how to properly set up MySQL and CF on NoGoDaddy:

1) create your database and give it a name. 2) navigate to the "Hosting Control Center" 3) click "databases" 4) click on the "pencil" icon next to the database you want to set up for CF. 5) on the right side of the screen you will find "DSN: Install" and below that Cold Fusion DSN: Install". 6) click on the "DSN: Install" You must do this one first or it won't work!!! Wait for it to be installed, so it is no longer pending, refresh to check when it is installed. 7) next, click on the "Cold Fusion DSN: Install" Wait for it install... 8) you will see two names that appear next to each DSN. you want to use the name that appears next to the Cold Fusion DSN: "mysqlcf_yourdatabasename" THAT my friends, is your CF DSN that you use in your CF Query statements.

I had installed the CF DSN first, THEN did the other DSN...and it never displayed a name for CF DSN after installing! So do the top DSN first, THEN the CF DSN install after.

What a $#^%$#^ pain in the arse!! A big No Thanks to NoGoDaddy tech support too!! On a lighter note, go visit joecartoon.com and check out the Gerbil! I'm sure he would enjoy calling GoDaddy tech support as much as I did and have lots to say to them.

We shall see if the Daddy's hosting is worthwhile at all, at least now that I can actually use it for something other than parking a domain name.

So again...we shall see.

I suggested that maybe the Daddy should contact Danica Patrick to find out what Coldfusion and Flash Remoting are, as she probably knows more about them than their own support people do! haha ;)

Yesterday I bought the economy Godaddy account with CF for a little Fusebox5 project and ran into the "createObject" permissions problem within the first hour.

I uploaded a working Fusebox app called "wireframe" to make sure that everything would run ok before I put up my own FB code. Fzzzzt... poof!

I outlined the problem to the help desk and got this message back: "We have investigated your issue and it appears to be a problem within the coding. Unfortunately, we are unable to assist as it is custom code. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

You'd think the help desk would have known about the CF issues! I have to punt, fer sure, but do no know yet in which direction.

"I am sorry, we are not able to provide troubleshooting and support for coding and scripting issues. The Cold Fusion support is the same for all levels of shared hosting.

Currently, we disable the following ColdFusion features on our shared hosting accounts:

JSP, Java servlets, and Java Objects The tag and the createObject function CFExecute CFRegistry Remote Development Services (RDS)

These functions cannot be enabled. This information is available in our Help Center at help.godaddy.com. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Please let us know if we can assist you in any other way."

Jason P. Online Support Technician

........... so now we know. Is there a list on the web for CF friendly hosting providers?

Even when they spell it out like that, they're often wrong. I'm happy(ish) to report that CreateObject works on the Linux hosting option, see: http://blog.mrbuzzy.biz/?p=13

Despite this fact, if you can afford something better, go for that.

Cheers.

It may come to forgetting about learning fusebox until I hit the lotto.

So I changed the os to Linux to see if that would work and I can't even get to the createObject problem. index.cfm's cfinclude can't load the fb file because of permissions. Yikes! I changed the path several times and I got file not found errors... so the file is there and linux is just mocking me. ;-)

Here is the error and if it makes sense to anyone, HELP! I dread the GoDaddy help desk until I know what to tell them to do. Thanks.

Security: The requested template has been denied access to /var/chroot/home/content/a/r/t/arta3d/html/fusebox5/fusebox5.cfm

The following is the internal exception message: access denied (java.io.FilePermission /var/chroot/home/content/a/r/t/arta3d/html/fusebox5/fusebox5.cfm execute) The error occurred in /var/chroot/home/content/a/r/t/arta3d/html/wireframe/index.cfm: line 9

7: </cfsilent> 8: <cfset FUSEBOX_APPLICATION_PATH = ""> 9: <cfinclude template="/fusebox5/fusebox5.cfm">

<cfinclude template="../fusebox5/fusebox5.cfm" />

It may be a mapping problem - if you use a relative path (with ../) that will avoid the mapping.

A "file not found" error occurs with a bad path and permission errors with a good path. Me thinks a switch somewhere must be thrown to fix the problem. But which one and where?

I have been all over the GoDaddy online self-help and couldn't find any useful CF help. And GoDaddy's online file manager doesn't display file attributes but FireFTP does.

index.cfm -rwx---r-x fusebox5 (dir) drwxr-xr-x fusebox5.cfm -rw-r--r-- Does the fb5.cfm file need an owner eXecute attribute? I changed the attributes to -rwxr-xr-x and still no go.

Oh, the CSS files load okay in the web root index.cfm... cfinclude tag seems too fundamental to CF to actually be blocked... or is it?

BTW, if this is the wrong place to post this problem, please tell me and I will move on.

You could try copying the contents of the fusebox 5 folder directly into your main application folder and then just <cfinclude template="fusebox5.cfm">

If that doesn't work, then I don't know what is wrong with GoDaddy's setup. And this absolutely is a problem with GoDaddy.

I built a website on a troublefree experthost server and then moved it to godaddy. Oops!

I was alternately receiving several errors: 1. Datasource not found. 2. The workgroup information file is missing or opened exclusively by another user.

I removed and reuploaded the db via ftp (without applying password to the db).I went to the godaddy database Control Panel, Removed Access Support, Re-Enabled Access Support, created the db username and password as 'Admin', and modified my query: <cfquery name="Get_Whatever" datasource="mydomainname_accesscf_databasename"> (no username="" no password="" in query) It now works!

Both corfield's website and 'http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/print.cfm?id=D66991DE-AAF7-3964-114418906FE2BDD8' helped resolve this problem. Thank you!

Something super simple like this...

<CFFILE ACTION="write" FILE="asdf1234.html" OUTPUT='</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="##FFFFFF">sdafsadfsdf</BODY></HTML>' ADDNEWLINE="YES">

(I want to write out many HTML files out of an Access DB and use them on a non-CF site.)

Thank you.

I think you need to save the files to somewhere you know you can write to, ie; <CFFILE ACTION="write" FILE="D:\Hosting\Randy\asdf1234.html">

(Side thought - does CF8 let you specify the temp directory with per application settings?)

The answer is because there's not enough people like you who are kind enough to post the answer!

GoDaddy gave me a path that did not work... C:\CFUSIONMX7\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\

...when I told them it didn't work (the error was 'you don't have permissions to write there' they sent me, three days later, an email saying that 'all writes occur to the /tmp directory...which is hidden!'.

Then I read someone else say use expand path and I for that I got "D:\TEMP\wwwroot-tmp\" which (obviously) didn't work and then, finally, you posted the right path, 'D:\Hosting\Randy\asdf1234.html'.

SO!... the answer to you question is "BECAUSE I COULDN'T DO IT THE RIGHT WAY UNTIL YOU CAME ALONG TO HELP!"

...thank you.

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I have two GoDaddy shared hosting accounts, one personal and one for my work. Both use Linux with CFMX7. I just tried using <cfinclude> to manage a standard site header and footer, and I got the same error as Dianna on July 14th, which I googled and came to this thread.

Out of curiousity I copied the exact same files using the <cfinclude> to my other GoDaddy account and it worked instantly.

I have not changed any file or directory permissions. The template atttribute is _not_ pathed, meaning they just look for the filename in the same directory and include their contents:

<cfinclude template="header.cfm"> <p>Body content here.</p> <cfinclude template="footer.cfm">

From this I infer that the problem may vary depending on the setup of the server where your site lives, and that the shared hosting at GoDaddy is not identically configured between servers. Fiddling with your code, path, or permissions will most likely not solve the problem.

I have emailed tech support and will let you know if I get anything more helpful than a canned response. Since I can demonstrate that it works on one of their servers but not the other one, I should be able to get them to resolve the problem. Wish me luck.

http://www.rabidgadfly.com/?p=41

This morning (24 hours later) I received a canned "it's a scripting problem, and we don't support that" response email. I called tech support again and demonstrated that the code works perfectly on one account but errors out on another. They concurred and have escalated it, giving me an ETA of 24 to 48 hours or more.

At this point I would say:

1. email support from GoDaddy is poor. They do not meet their quoted two hour response time and the responses are either incorrect or automated. They seem quick to fob problems off as bad coding on the customer's part.

2. phone support is polite and fast. I have spoken with four different staff and was always treated courteously. They got up and chased down the problem. They do assign case numbers and escalation numbers. Unfortunately, they don't assign tickets directly to staff so no one owns your issue and you can't call the same person back for an update.

So, don't email them. Go straight to the phone, expect to call back more than once, and a resolution time of up to several days.

For what it's worth, if you have more than one account with GoDaddy, it has proven very valuable to be able to test identical code on different servers to demonstrate a problem is on their end.

I have had NOTHING but frustration with GoDaddy. A team of developers that I work with decided to switch from an expensive ROOT Server package at 1and1.com and go with a shared hosting plan(s). We did the research, we thought, and went with Godaddy. We have 72 clients/sites.

I know I know, get a server admin on the team and have our own box....my thoughts too. but we dont'.

I have 3 accounts with Godaddy, some with shopping carts, some with SSL, all with DB (MySQL) and 50% are ColdFusion apps. That being said, I have had to rebuild code to work arround their "security" limitations...i.e. all the tags mentioned above are blocked!

I will backup and confirm that each shared account will be on a different configured box and code will not work from one to the other often times. i.e. I have once account on MX 7 with MYSQL 4, one with MX 7 and Mysql 5, and one with an older version of CF (or something there abouts). Code from one, doesn't work consistently on another.

Godaddy does NOT have a CF expert in their staff.

Godaddy email support is terrible. NEVER submit an email trouble ticket. The ticket # means nothing, all responses are canned, and they often response with incorrect info or tell you something that has nothing to do with the issue. Often, they try and sell me a new product or upgrade as a "solution".

Phone support is better, until you hang up. Period.

Last know issue for me was when I had a large app using Session variables and the sessions I determined were not "sticky" and the load balancing, coupled with my <cflock> during session updates were causing the session variables to be lost and thus the user was getting errors, and getting bumped. They still don't know why, and don't plan to fix what I know is wrong.

Serious CF, do not use Godaddy! I am shopping elsewhere as I write this.

I called this morning for an update to my ticket, and the tech informed me that it had incorrectly been closed (for the second time now) and no one was working on it. He read through the case notes and immediately admitted it was their fault and that they should not have closed it. He offered to escalate the ticket and quoted me another 48 hour+ turnaround time. I asked for a refund, which the tech politely provided. Two minutes later I had my money back and both hosting accounts instantly deleted.

I'm back where I started, but now I have lost 5 days of development time and have to explain the charge reversal and delay to my employer, who will of course not move my deadline back.

GoDaddy is not in a position to properly support ColdFusion. Do not use them for your CF hosting needs.

I'm on a similar host like GODADDY and I can't use createobject. I'm having trouble recoding the blog.cfc page. If you have made these changes and have it working I would be very grateful if you could share the cod with me.

Heck, isn't that what OpenSoucre CF is all about :)

It's possible Fusebox 4.1 or maybe Fusebox 3 will run on GoDaddy.

if you go to this url http://www.mykaraokedj.com/welcome.cfm

which is hosted on their Linux server I"m seeing this error. but my root is mykaraoke dj and the includes folder is right off the root. I've don't have a path called /content/m/y/k/... don't know where that is coming from, but basically i can't use cfinclude to get any of my templates like my header or footer or menu.cfm files that sit in my include directory. Have any of you seen this before? How do I fix this?

Looks like welcome.cfm attempts to include top_menu.cfm but that file is not present on the server. You can set that here:

http://www.mykaraokedj.com/top_menu.cfm

A little experimentation shows you put the menu include in a subdirectory so welcome.cfm should have:

cfinclude template="includes/top_menu.cfm"

Hope that helps.

cfinclude template"./includes/top_menu"

Cheers.

cfinclude template="./includes/top_menu.cfm"

I also tried without the proxyport 3128 and passive="yes" but to no avail. Any suggestion is appreciated.

Now I just need to figure out what is going on with my DB Query - I get an "Executing" error, which I never got on my prior host using the same code. In addition, I'm having trouble with the two CFX tags they allow: <CFX_ImageInfoMX>, and <CFX_jpegresize>. I've seen some path modifications on the prior postings, which I'll try.

Overall, I can't complain about GoDaddy. Their pricing is so low. With regard to setting everything up, if you are thorough as you go through the Hosting Control Center and your other account options, you can figure out how to set up everything necessary without contacting Tech Support. My experience is that their support team is pretty prompt, but limited in their knowledge.

Good luck to all. Patience is key.