For a few weeks now WordPress has been telling me I need to update a theme and WordPress itself. But when I clicked on the links it presented me, I would get a page saying:
Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.1.3.zip
And that would be it. Nothing… No update. No error message. Nothing.
Getting fed up of this I decided to do a quick Google and found that for Linux based packages from 1&1 which host WordPress blogs, you need to add a new content-type to you .htaccess file for php5:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
I ftp-ed the change to my site and also removed:
/wp-content/upgrades
/wp-content/*.tmp
I then returned to my blog, clicked update and as if by magic… WordPress updated itself.
I’m guessing that this fix also works for updating themes or plug-ins, as I now have no problem updating anything.
