Posts Tagged ‘1and1’

WordPress 2.7.1 auto upgrade fix

Posted on Monday 16th February 2009 under Work by admin

I discovered last night that the auto-upgrade function to take WordPress 2.7 to 2.7.1 failed – or rather it sat at the “downloading wordpress-2.7.1.zip” message indefinitely.

At the auto-upgrade is a new feature of 2.7, I had never been able to test this functionality, although I had high expectations of it since the plugin upgrade has worked so well.

After searching the forums and Google for a while I found bassmadrigal’s solution – modify .htaccess for the WordPress installation in question and add:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Works fine, and the auto upgrade of plugins stills works too.

The science bit

Using 1and1 as a host requires this directive in .htaccess as detailed in the WordPress codex. It forces the 1and1 server to parse .php files as php5 files (instead of, presumably, php4).

I had this before my upgrade to 2.7 (OK, technically a re-installation) and unfortunately the baby got thrown out with the bathwater.

1and1 contract secret

Posted on Monday 16th February 2009 under Work by admin

Shhh, 1and1 don’t want you to know this, but…
… you can cancel or amend contracts at
contract.1and1.co.uk
As far as I can tell, this information is not to be found on the admin.1and1.co.uk FAQ or Help pages. I had to complete an online support request to find this info.
Once you are in, it’s easy – so I have started the process of releasing four unwanted domain names.