Drupal, 1&1 hosting and some 500 errors to order
Migrating from a MAMP localhost to 1&1 shared server space for a Drupal site, started causing intermittent 500 error pages. But no real feedback from Drupal.
After some digging it turns out that 1&1 default to PHP 4.4.9 even through they have 5.2.8 installed!!??!!
So adding an .htaccess file (even though they don’t allow them) with the following line of code upgrades you nicely:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
