Hey guys, installing the sample data is required for Magento install, as it creates all the product tables, etc, correct?
So I am trying to install Magento on my shared server with GoDaddy and I cannot import the sample-data.sql file that. I get the error:
#2006 - MySQL server has gone away
So this means it is timing out while running the SQL file. Tons of tables are still created though with lots of data before it times out. I have looked everywhere for an answer. In my PHP5.INI file I have increased:
mysql.connect_timeout = 60
max_execution_time = 600
wait_timeout = 600
I spent like two hours speaking with GoDaddy support trying to figure out what is wrong. They cannot tell me. They say that it MIGHT wait_timeout but this is not something I can set in the INI file, they say we cannot change this on a shared server and that I need to switch everything over to a VPS. Now I am just helping someone with their site and they wanted Magento, I only have a limited amount of experience with servers and do not want to be their server admin - GoDaddy says they will set it up and monitor their server for $150 / month extra.
I did not imagine installing Magento could be this difficult (I cannot even complete one of the simple and straight forward beginning installation steps!) because of how widely used it is! And of course I figured it would work fine with GoDaddy since they are one of the leading host providers in the world .....
Can someone help me with this issue!? Someone out there MUST have run into the same issue importing the sample data into GoDaddy.
