Issues you might face when Setting Up Magento in GoDaddy Shared Hosting

Magento is a powerful open-source ecommerce web application. Recently I hosted magento in a Godaddy. While setting up magento in godaddy I ran into various issues. Here are some of the issues I faced and How I resolved them

1.) When site is installed you get the message "No input file specified"

To resolve that you should renam php.ini file in web directory to php5.ini. And you should put cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 top of the php5.ini file. If you are still getting the error add this "Options -Multivies" to the top of .htaccess .

2.) Added products are not displayed in the front end of the site

Most possible cause can be when adding the product setting Stock availability option to "Out of Stock" in inventory section

3.) Added Images are not displayed in the front end

Image size should be around very lower(less than 40kb). You should remove .htaccess file

located in the media folder.

4.) When you try to access the site or admin panel you get the message "The Server is temporarily unable to service your request"

This happens when your store has been put to maintenance mode. To resolve this you have to delete maintenance.flag in the root directory.

5.) If you want to install Sample data from Magento run that script from phpmysql admin first of all. If you install sample data later you might end up with various errors.