History: 1and1 install

Source of version: 11 (current)

! Installing Tiki on 1&1
This is to note things that deviate from the regular installation instructions.

http://1and1.com/

!! WebspaceExplorer
1and1 has a nice tool which lets you unzip the files on the server. This is much faster than uploading all the files.

So when you download Tiki, get the .zip version

unzip on server via WebspaceExplorer can take 30-40 seconds

!! Make sure you have PHP5
You may get something like this:
{CODE()}Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '{' in tiki-install.php on line 48{CODE}

By default, it's still PHP Version 4.4.9 as of 2010-11-06
http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/php/5.html

With the proper .htaccess, it becomes 5.2.6

This will change over time (and perhaps from server to server but at the time of writing)
phpMyAdmin is 2.6.4
MySQL: 5.0.91

!! Database is not localhost
This is not uncommon. When you are in tiki-install.php, make sure to replace ''localhost'' with the value provided by 1and1


!! File uploads
With default configuration, file uploads are broken. ref: ((Understanding Encoding))

You can solve by 
1- using 5.4 or 6.0
2- apply this patch:
http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tikiwiki?view=revision&revision=30000
3- use adodb, instead of pdo as per http://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes5.0#Database_Encoding_Issues

-= thing to check =-
* Performance & what are differences of various plans

!! Error 500
I solved them with this instruction "__RewriteBase   /__" after the "RewriteEngine On" in the .htaccess:
{CODE(colors="tiki")}
(...)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase   /

(...)
{CODE}


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