So have you delved into the world of WordPress? It’s a pretty cool piece of software and by the looks of things, a lot of people are using it these days as the basis of their entire website. As I’ve gotten more acquainted with it, I discovered that there are “plug-ins” that allow WordPress to do some even more cool stuff, so of course I started adding.
That’s when the fun began!
Turns out most/many WordPress plug-ins want to see something called PHP5 running on your web hosting server. Fair enough, but it turns out my host and many others default to PHP4. I called and asked my host to turn on 5, and found out, it’s not quite that simple!
Why was I surprised ? ; )
Thus I learned all about something that I should probably never taken the time to learn about, yet now that I do, I feel strangely like I’ve got one over on my computer, for once!!!! There’s a file in some website directories called the .htaccess file and to solve the problem, I needed to create one for my website and add one line of code to it. Voila! My website now runs PHP5!
In case you’re an uber geek and want to know what I did, here’s the explanation that I found:
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“By default Apache uses PHP 4 for .php extension. If you don’t want to rename all your scripts to .php5 you can do the following:
Create a .htaccess file and place the following line AddType x-mapp-php5 .php in it. This will tell Apache to use PHP 5 instead of PHP 4 for the extension .php in the directory the .htaccess is placed and all sub-directories under it.
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Now that I’m on a roll, I went ahead and upgraded WordPress to the latest version as well. I have to hand it to the WordPress folks, if you know how to access your web server using FTP, their directions to install and upgrade WordPress are very easy to follow! I did it without a hitch!!!
Kudos to the WordPress community!
Filed under: Education
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