Marc Charbonneau's Blog » WordPress http://blog.mbcharbonneau.com Code. Cocoa. Technology. Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:51:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 WordPress automatic updates failing on 1&1? http://blog.mbcharbonneau.com/2009/12/02/wordpress-automatic-updates-failing-on-11/ http://blog.mbcharbonneau.com/2009/12/02/wordpress-automatic-updates-failing-on-11/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:44:50 +0000 Marc Charbonneau http://blog.mbcharbonneau.com/?p=406 When WordPress 2.7 was released I was looking forward to automatic updates out of all the new features. Instead of copying files back and forth through SFTP (which isn’t terribly hard, but annoying enough when you have to do it every few months), all you have to do is click a button and WordPress does the rest for you. Supposedly. I think this might have worked for me once after 2.7 was released, but since then it’s always failed, right up through the most recent 2.8.x versions. Instead, the update screen just perpetually hangs with the message “Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/…“.

With the most recent update I finally found a fix for the problem, which is apparently specific to the PHP configuration for 1&1 customers. Add these two lines to the end of the .htaccess file in your WordPress root directory:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

And you should be set!

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