Day 2(6/11/09 17.13): Failure! Tried to create a new blog called testblog and expected to get a url 
terrywassall.org/blogs/testblog/. However the email sent to me with the activation link took me to testblog.terrywassall.org/blogs/ and when I clicked on it I got the Not found: The requested document was not found on this server page. Did I forget to choose the sub-directory option when I installed? I guess I’ll have to try again. Blast!

However, reported problem to Twitter and Andrea came up trumps again! Her reply said “make sure VHOST in config file is set to no.”  I remebered this is a line in the wp-config.php file that I had inspected yesterday to see what the installation script had produced. However, I was not able to edit it. The file was associated with a group and user called ‘apache’. Not sure what this means, but it certainly isn’t me. In the file VHOST was set to yes so needed changing. I got round this by copying wp-config.phpto another file with another name and editing it. I then renamed the original uneditable wp-config.php to something else (I was a bit surprised it let me do this) and renamed the edited copy to wp-config.php. I have no idea if this will have any unanticipated consequences. However, I created another new blog, testblog2, and the url returned to me in the email was terrywassall.org/blogs/testblog2/. When I clicked on the activation link all went well and when the following email arrived with a password I could log into the new blog. Fantastic!

I would like to thank Andrea for her generous help via Twitter. Two absolutely key pieces of information she shared with me undoubtedly saved me a lot of time and trouble. Next time I’m in your vicinity Andrea expect flowers, chocolates and one of my best jokes!