Comments on: WordPress Automatic Update with 1and1

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:56:08 +0000

Thank you very much! I was ready to tear my hair out with the broken auto-updates.

By: Susan McNaughton

Susan McNaughton — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:32:53 +0000

Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. And a tweet too: http://twitter.com/2edinburgh/status/21897683070
When I saw your post I thought ‘oh, this is old stuff 1&1 can’t be the problem…’ but you were right even after 18 months!
It was all so easy after I’d followed your advice.

By: bigw

bigw — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:22:37 +0000

Mat,

I would make a good backup of your database.

Then go to your 1and1 control panel and create a new database and make sure it says MySQL version 5.

Then do a database restore from your backup file to the new database you just created.

Once that is complete, update your blog wp-config.php file with the new database.

By: Mat

Mat — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:58:43 +0000

Okay, I got it to start working but I get this message. “The update cannot be installed because WordPress 3.0.1 requires MySQL version 4.1.2 or higher. You are running version 4.0.27.”

Thanks for any help,

Mat

By: Mat

Mat — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:54:42 +0000

Hi, I just created the file with text edit, added the code, saved it and then I renamed it in Dreamweaver to “.htaccess” and uploaded it to the server. Now I am getting a 500 internal server error. Any suggestions. I was under the impression that 1and 1 did not support php 5.

Thanks,

Mat

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:20:36 +0000

Cheers to you, sir. This works like a champ!

By: nabekor

nabekor — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:00:06 +0000

thanks a lot !
without the modification of the .htaccess file will not be able to upgrade in wp 3

By: bigw

bigw — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:50:03 +0000

Yes, it is important to get the text just right or you will get a server error.

By: labman

labman — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:09:07 +0000

This really made my day. I was tired of updating everything by hand. (Although I didn’t copy and paste it the first time, I just typed it in and didn’t put the space before .php and got error messages. It took me about 5 minutes to realize what I did wrong.)

By: Tom P.

Tom P. — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:42:15 +0000

Terrific. Bravo. Just saved me much time and effort going forward. Many thanks.