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01 Aug 2011 by Dave.
About owning the Wordpress install and using 1and1 hosting services. I am preparing to change the look and feel of this blog, and have a shadow blog. This is installed using ftp of a wordpress distribution. My hosting povider is 1&1 which has a FAQ on how to in install a private copy of wordpress into one of their hosting accounts. I was having some problems geting the shadow blog to use the self updateing tools; I was trying to install WPtouch, a theme that optimises the look and fell for small screen devices, and the wordpress adminstration page/frame would go blank, or take the background display colour .
It seems that wordpress needs to access PHP5 for these functions to work properly, while the 1and1 default is PHP4. I spoke to 1&1 to work out how to do invoke PHP5. I have inserted
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
into a fresh new .htaccess file.
The updates and add new theme dialogues now work.
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