Spence Green

I am a graduate student in Computer Science at Stanford University. In addition to computers and software, my interests include travel, running, and diving. I speak Arabic.

Wordpress, 1and1, and MySQL

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For several months now I have been unable to automatically update Wordpress. Then, this afternoon, I found that I could no longer update the site manually. A quick glance at the 2.9.1 release notes revealed the problem:

Requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (old requirement was 4.0).

A few searches revealed that many other 1&1 users have encountered the same issue, which I resolved by making two administrative changes:

  1. Ensure that Wordpress is running on php5 by adding a line to .htaccess in the Wordpress root directory.
  2. Migrate the Wordpress database to MySQL 5.0. I followed this set of instructions exactly.

Written by Spence

January 9th, 2010 at 11:49 pm

Posted in Software

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