It was a struggle, but we got there in the end. The background to this was that I tried to upgrade my Rails install from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 using the Rails wiki Getting Started guide, and then started running into problems. Ooh look, here it is:
Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems.rb:777:in `report_activate_error’: RubyGem version error: rack(1.0.0 not ~> 1.0.1) (Gem::LoadError)
…which [...]
Archive : Mac OS X
2nd March 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 [...]