Auto Upgrade Fix for 1and1 users

I tried to put it like this,

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ./index .php [L]
</IfModule>

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

# END WordPress

but then my website turns out blank. Showing nothing.

Excellent – this has been giving me grief for months. The fix works!!!

same chit from 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 I re edited the .htaccess file and the upgrade automatically worked!

@bonjove

dunno what’s wrong…sorry I did it eaxctly like your file there and it worked for me..do you have the DOT in front of HTACCESS file name?

It worked for me. Thanks a lot!

Alex

Thank you, worked for me too with 2.8.4.

How stupid is that? The requirements say PHP 4.3 is necessary so it should work with 4.4.9 what 1and1 uses.

NICE.

Thank you so much for posting! 1und1 / 1and1 is a nightmare.

unfortunately my problem persist.
trying to upgrade from 2.6.2 to 2.8.4

i’m using awardspace.com

I still can see the normal site but, when I try to login, i receive the following message:

[pixnix.awardspace.com] [Thu Sep 10 17:51:00 2009] [error] [client 189.82.176.81] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://pixnix.awardspace.com/wp-login.php
Error 500: Script Execution Failure

Ya know, I had this problem, but I thought it was my server. ?? I did everything I could to get it to work. I am such a moron. I used to have this in an .htaccess in the root of my hosting. But it broke some software I used so I removed it… I just realized, upgrading of WordPress broke at about the same time as I removed it.

The .htaccess file is an ‘invisible’ file. Using an FTP program such as Transmit, you can go to the View > Show Invisible Files option, then open the file with a text editor.

Also, place the new line of code just before the </IfModule> line.

Thanks to everyone that worked on this fix – it’s been a pain for months, and now it works perfectly!

Although this thread is [resolved], I still want to add my 2 cents.

Did not see this thread until AFTER struggling to auto install upgrade, then struggling with manually installing upgrade, which was truly a struggle since I have a fair amount of customization in place. The end of the sad story is that somewhere in the process of replacing files I received an error message from 1and1 (web host) and all my directories disappeared… Now I am waiting to see if they will be able to retrieve basically my entire web space. Other sites unassociated with WordPress are just up and gone.

This is quite discouraging. Is it really worth all this, for a few measly blogs?

“They’ve just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment… to take over.”

– Bjork, “The Modern Things”

I’m back in business–thanks to this valuable piece of code. Thank you!

“They’ve just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment… to take over.”

– Bjork, “The Modern Things”

this worked perfectly – THANK YOU!!!

This tip made my day! Thanks.