The Laughing DM » PHP5 http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress Behind the screen you hear the clatter of dice. The Dungeon Master begins to laugh. What do you do? Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:18:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 WordPress Automatic Update http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/2009/06/18/wordpress-automatic-update/ http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/2009/06/18/wordpress-automatic-update/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:37:56 +0000 DungeonMaster http://www.thelaughingdm.com/wordpress/?p=309 Recently WordPress shipped an update to their fine blogging engine.  The version that had been in use for this blog was capable of performing an automatic update to the new version.  However, no matter how many times I clicked the “upgrade” button the upgrade would just never execute.  Some searching around the WordPress forums led me to a listing of web hosts that needed a few adjustments.  All that was necessary to enable the automatic upgrades was to tell the host via the .htaccess file in the main WordPress directory that PHP5 should be enabled.

Add the line shown below anywhere to enable PHP5 support for 1 & 1 Linux hosts:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
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