Drupal with 1and1 Hosting
You will need to make some changes to the .htaccess file to get Drupal working with http://www.1and1.com. You will also need SSH access to make the changes.
After extracting your Drupal files, modify the .httacces file and add the following line to the top. Note** You can do this at the root of your shared directory.
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
To get "clean-urls" working, uncomment the ReWrite.
RewriteBase /