Normally SK works fine on GoDaddy as long as you upload the sk-article file in binary mode. But if you get an error saying that Zend Optimizer isn’t installed it’s like because you are using php version 5.

I ran into this problem tonight. Although I have other sites that use Syndicate Kahuna within the same hosting package and they work fine, for one of my sites it didn’t and the only real difference is that I enabled php 5 for that particular site. In case you didn’t know, to enable php5 on GoDaddy you just have to add this line to the top of your .htaccess file: AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php

Here’s how I fixed it to get SK working…

1) Create a free account at Zend.com
2) Download Zend Optimizer for Linux x86 (32 Bit)
3) Unzip the Zend package and find the file: /data/5_2_x_comp/ZendOptimizer.so
4) Upload that file to your blog to a folder called “zend”
5) Create a file called php5.ini with the following text…

[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
zend_extension=zend/ZendOptimizer.so
zend_extension_ts=zend/TS/ZendOptimizer.so

6) Upload the php5.ini file to the root

That should do it.

More info: Zend Optimizer Error for Syndicate Kahuna on GoDaddy