Blogging for fun and profit

After installing Joomla on a Godaddy shared server (Deluxe plan which allow unlimited websites), I renamed htaccess.txt into .htaccess to allow url rewriting.

Home page is fine, but the first article created and linked to the main menu returned this error
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

The solution to the INTERNAL SERVER ERROR problem is uncommenting the following line in .htaccess (or in htaccess.txt if you didn’t already rename it).

# RewriteBase /

You must remove the # , thus having in your .htaccess

RewriteBase /

Reload the page and everything should be fine !

Like me, hundred of persons were wasting their money with 10 or 20 different shared hosting accounts at godaddy.
Once one figures out how much a VPS - Virtual Private Server (or VDS - Virtual Dedicated Server) costs, the following question arise: why am I paying $100 per month for 20 different shared hosting accounts when I can purchase a Virtual Dedicated Server for a cheap price?!?

The decision involves an analysis of dedicated server pros and cons.

VDS pro:
- unlimited website hosting (just realize how to use Apache Virtual Hosts - VHosts)
- very large bandwidth
- very large disk space
- ssh, ftp, mysql, phpmyadmin, … access
- unlimited root access
- no bad neighbours (spam, casino online or porn sites)

VDS cons:
- you must achieve security yourself
- you are responsible about all aspects of your server

I decided to switch from shared hosting to VDS and I am very happy with it!

If you need help in choosing your godaddy package or simply need additional informations, leave a comment!