auto update doesn’t work

  • I know “code is poetry” – but I don’t know code.

    Anyhow, I can’t do the 2.7 > 2.7.1 update.

    I’m on 1and1, and I saw this bit on a forum post:

    “(fails running PHP 4, but works with PHP 5. Add AddType x-mapp-php5 .php to .htaccess to enable PHP 5. This also appears to not only affect Core updates but some Plugin updates as well.)

    Translation: Add this line
    AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
    into your .htaccess file, which is in the top folder of your WordPress install”

    – –

    Well, I found “.htaccess” within the file wp-admin/options-permalink.php – but I don’t have a clue where to paste that code into that file (or if that’s what I need to do).

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  • No – that’s the wrong file. Look on the directory where you installed WordPress. You should see a file called .htaccess. This is the file that you need to edit. Open it in a text editor and add the line suggested to the very top of the file, save and re-upload.

    Thread Starter pmerrill

    (@pmerrill)

    I can’t find that file. I must not have access to it. Sigh.

    Are you using an FTP client? If, ‘yes’, make sure that you haven’t got any filters set that are hiding the file.

    Thread Starter pmerrill

    (@pmerrill)

    I created that file, made a one-line entry in the file and uploaded it to my server. (There was no file by that name there.)

    It STILL won’t do the auto-update.

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