Setting up Typo3 in a Go-Daddy hosting

I really like using Typo3 as a CMS and in order to have it up and running on a Go Daddy linux hosting, here are the steps, not really difficult, but I think it can be of use to somebody else. I'm assuming You are already familiar with Typo3 and mySQL.

Set Up a Database

On the hosting manager, select Databases/MySQL menu option. Click on the create database button.

• Description: Typo3 Database
• MySQL Database/Username: Name of the database and that of the user to be the manager of it
• MySQL Version: Depending on Typo3 version, should be no problem on using 5.0 with newer releases of Typo3

Once defined, in the list, select the edit button, take note of the host name, should be something like name.db.123456.hostedresource.com

Prepare the software for setup

Get the .tar.gz for the desired package (usually dummy) from typo3.org, the linux version and upload via ftp to your site.

Now, in the hosting manager, select the Content/File Manager menu option. Locate the compressed file, and select the uncompress icon from the toolbar. There you can specify the target directory. You can later decide wether how to acces typo3, be it as a path from the website root or as a subdomain.

Setup Typo3

According to documentation, enable the install page, and access it trough the domain.com/uncompressed_folder path. On the database setup, use the info obtained when setting up the database, name, user, password and host.

Proceed as usual. On the setup options, if You want to enable ImageMagik and lzw, they are located at /usr/local/bin/, as documented on this previous post.