Comments on: Auto Updating WordPress with 1and1 Hosting http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/auto-updating-wordpress-with-1and1-hosting Custom WordPress Plugins Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:55:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Norm Fisher http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/auto-updating-wordpress-with-1and1-hosting/comment-page-1#comment-1156 Norm Fisher Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:24:45 +0000 http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/?p=595#comment-1156 Wow! This worked for me. Thanks! Can you explain a bit about what it does or why it fixes this? What is an "x-mapp-php5" type and where does WP use it? I saw that I had to re-login as soon as I changed it .. Wow! This worked for me. Thanks!

Can you explain a bit about what it does or why it fixes this? What is an “x-mapp-php5″ type and where does WP use it?

I saw that I had to re-login as soon as I changed it ..

]]> By: Lew Ayotte http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/auto-updating-wordpress-with-1and1-hosting/comment-page-1#comment-1159 Lew Ayotte Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:08:35 +0000 http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/?p=595#comment-1159 Hey Norm, Glad to hear it worked for you :). On 1and1, PHP4 and PHP5 are available, but PHP4 is the default. The auto-update feature in WordPress requires PHP5 (from what I understand). So when you try to run it, it will fail if you're using PHP4. The AddType is an Apache web server command, "x-mapp-php5 .php" basically tells Apache to translate all PHP files in PHP5 rather than PHP4. You probably had to re-login because your session on the server was stored with PHP4, when you changed to use PHP5, it no longer had a valid session. I hope that helps :) Lew Hey Norm,

Glad to hear it worked for you :) . On 1and1, PHP4 and PHP5 are available, but PHP4 is the default. The auto-update feature in WordPress requires PHP5 (from what I understand). So when you try to run it, it will fail if you're using PHP4. The AddType is an Apache web server command, "x-mapp-php5 .php" basically tells Apache to translate all PHP files in PHP5 rather than PHP4.

You probably had to re-login because your session on the server was stored with PHP4, when you changed to use PHP5, it no longer had a valid session.

I hope that helps :)
Lew

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