Rein 2012 Thoughts/Notes

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Hosting files on godaddy while running website on another site.

Not stuff I normally post on this blog but just for future blog search hits if anyones looking for same solution.

My Situation:

  1. I have blogger running my site www.mobiussoft.com (this site) 
  2. I want to upload images and script files like php in a file hosting server
  3. I registered my domain through godaddy and they offer free hosting but comes with ads, so basically it's CRAP but you can store files and stuff... just once you rename the CNAME www to point to google the hosting doesn't work... 


Work Around.

  1. In GoDaddy create a Alias Host - like 'example' to point to the same IP as your default IP for @ in the domain manager.
  2. Now get the free hosting in Godaddy if you already didn't, sometimes hard to find... dunno why the hell Godaddy does this so you have to pay for it... when they offer free ticket for the free one (with ads) once you login to Godaddy the 2nd tab for 'Hosting' first link takes you to a page where you can use your free tickets to apply for the free hosting space.
  3. Once you setup the hosting service, get into the Subdomain manager and create a subdomain exactly same as the one you created in #1 for this example 'example'
  4. Wait around 45min-1hour for them to update the status on sub-domain activation
Now that you got a sub-domain working with the hosting you can access the files at going to the sub-domain address in this case http://example.mobiussoft.com and access any files uploaded to Godaddy's server, also GoDaddy allows PHP and MySQL database to run on your server so, in my case running a website from another site, I can write a AJAX code to retrieve the data resulted from the PHP... so in easy terms... can run database and other cool stuff from anywhere if you have enough knowledge of scripting :D 
Hope that helps some people... took me whole day to figure out how to use GoDaddy's free hosting service lol and had the damn thing for over 6 years now... orz 

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