WordPress automatic upgrade

I had trouble with upgrading WordPress from v2.8 to v2.8.1. The automatic updater would get as far as this:

     Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.1.zip.

     Unpacking the update.

Then nothing.

To fix it I had to switch to PHP5. My cheapie 1and1 hosting account that this blog runs on uses PHP4 by default.

If you are running WordPress on a 1and1 shared hosting account, add this to your .htaccess file:

     AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Fixed. Hope it helps anyone who runs into a similar problem.