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WordPress automatic update doesn’t work – solution

Posted by jriordon on February 20th, 2009

If you are using WordPress 2.7 you will get the notice that you should run the automatic updater to update WordPress to version 2.7.1. If like me, you click update and only get the new WordPress 2.7.1 to download, and then nothing, and if you are on 1and1, here is the solution:

You must be on php5 to run the updater. As I have mentioned before, you can push 1and1 sites to be on php5 simply by adding this line to the .htaccess file in the root of your site:

PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
  1. AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

This tip thanks to the wordpress support forums.



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Written by:
MarbleHost.com
Posted on:
February 25th, 2009 at 2:25 am

Hi

Thank you for your information, as since last couple of day’s I too am facing with the same problem, But now I got it.

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Written by:
Kenneth Sena
Posted on:
March 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

hey, thanks for this. i’ve been experiencing this for the past few days now. luckily my friend told me to read your site. thanks a lot.

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Written by:
Happy User
Posted on:
June 11th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

Thanks for posting this! I have been unable to upgrade in previous versions and your instructions were exactly what I needed.

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Written by:
Richard Ward
Posted on:
June 17th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

Great tip! I recently switched from HostGator to 1&1 and this solved my problem with WordPress not automatically updating.

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Written by:
Andrea
Posted on:
June 19th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

Thanks! Worked like magic!

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Written by:
TankSlappa
Posted on:
July 10th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

Brill… Thanks for that. I was having a problem going from 2.8 to 2.8.1.
I didn’t even have a .htaccess file, but just creating one in the root and adding the AddType line did the trick :-)

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Written by:
GreatGrey
Posted on:
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:47 am

Worked just like it should have, thanks.