My webhost is 1&1 Internet, and this blog is hosted on their servers.
A while back, I wrote about the FCKEditor and how it didn’t try to strip out codes (or put them in) when you were adding raw code to your posts.
As time has gone by, though, I decided to look for something a little better. FCKEditor doesn’t have a very elegant skin.
I found Foliopress WYSIWYG, which sounded like it would do everything I wanted for normal WordPress posts. The only problem was that it requires PHP 5.0, and 1&1 was only running PHP 4.0. I’m sure I’d asked about this a year or two ago, but when I enquired this time there was actually a solution (last time, I’m sure there wasn’t).
Here’s how to enable PHP 5.0 on your 1&1 server.
Using a text editor that will not add headers (e.g. Notepad), create a file with the following text:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
Save the file as .htaccess
Upload the .htaccess file to the root directory on your server.
At the time of writing, 1&1 Internet is using PHP 5.2.14. Their Tech Support is very efficient, I have to say.