Quick Tip! WordPress on 1and1 Hosting Plans

You may have encountered some problems with WordPress if you have 1 and 1 as your web hosting company. By default the 1 and 1 servers process files with a .php extension as PHP 4. WordPress is compatible with PHP 4 but, I have encountered some plugins that require PHP 5 such as Statpress Reloaded.

To have .php files processed as PHP 5 by default on 1 and 1 you will have to edit the .htaccess file by adding the line below:

# Process .php extension as PHP 5 needed for 1 and 1 servers
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

You will need to download the .htaccess file from the WordPress directory or create a new one if WordPress has not created one for you. Simply open the file using a text editor and add the line above. Upload the .htaccess file and 1 and 1 will process .php files as PHP 5 by default.

According to the 1 and 1 FAQs they will start to process .php files as PHP 5 by default starting Q4 of 2010.