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1. steve.h
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I've attempted to upgrade two different wordpress installs on my server (one at the root - stevehenningsgard.com, and one in a different folder acting as a root directory for a different domain - ironthrones.com), and neither has worked automatically. They both fail at the same spot:

   "

   Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.4.zip.

   "

   It will create a file in the wp-content folder "wordpress-2.8.4.zip", but it will have a zero-byte size, and will never get any further.

   I tried to manually upgrade ironthrones.com, and now I can't approve comments, or upgrade or enable some plugins.

   After reading several suggestions relating to the .htaccess file and 1&1 web hosting, I created an .htaccess file with the following code:

   "
   
   # 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
   
   "

   ...which had no perceived effect. Please help!

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Try

   AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

   in htaccess, too.

   And then do a manual reupgrade as possibly some of your files got damaged on upload.

   Keep in mind that 1&1 might have some PHP security restrictions that break some plugins; Google the name of the plugin and 1&1 and see what you come up with.

3. steve.h
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Thanks for the help/reply, songdogtech!

   I'll add that and see what happens.

   Could you define a manual re-upgrade? As the automatic upgrade process never got past trying to download the zip file, I wouldn't imagine it would've goofed up any other files, but I could of course be wrong!

   Cheers,
   -steve.h

4. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Hope some of this works. It's two different upgrades:

   for ironthornes, do the upgrade over again; some files might have been inadvertently damaged or didn't complete on upload. The only plugin that is loading is antispam, so I don't know what other plugins you have that aren't working.

   Try a manual upgrade for stevehenningsgard; sometimes the autoupgrade has problems with directory permissions, i.e. creating directories and subdirectories on a host.

5. etow
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Thanks songdogtech. Adding "AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php" in addition to "AddType x-mapp-php5 .php" to my .hattaccess file on 1&1 allowed automatic updates to work. I don't know if "AddType x-mapp-php5 .php" was necessary because I did not try it with just "AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php".

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