Dreamhost, dammit. They seem to get a lot of criticism, but for my testing, fiddling purposes it’s more or less perfect – their shared hosting is cheap and they offer SSH access, and the ability to run Ruby apps alongside the usual PHP action.
But getting CodeIgniter to do clean URLs was a faff. Out [...]
Archive : htaccess
12th February 2010
Don’t tell me, you’ve just installed Wordpress on your local MAMP setup and it’s all gone wrong – you can no longer get to phpmyadmin and the MAMP setup page generally.
Check the root of your Mac hard disk – there should be a .htaccess file lurking there, with contents that include…
Options All -Indexes
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule [...]