Decided to take the plunge and upgrade this wordpress. I’ve been fine until 2.9 when wordpress started requiring MySQL 5.0. Unfortunately my 1and1 database was on 4.0. I found this helpful guide on how to migrate my DB. Better than the official 1and1 guide because the official guide left out the part about deleting 3 crucial lines. Don’t forget to add this to your htaccess to enable auto-upgrading.
Now to test out some features…
May 17th, 2010 1:22 pm
Kevin, thanks for pointing out that we missed that detail. I’ve updated our post accordingly, and actually found it was two lines that need to be deleted. Here’s the corrected version: http://blog.1and1.com/2010/04/06/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-mysql/
Micah Magruder
Head of Technical Support
1&1 Internet