So I decided to set up a brand new blog to test a few bits and pieces of SEO work out and as an intellectual exercise as much as anything else. So far it has proved to be a massive ballache. I went for hosting with mediatemple as I’ve used them in the past and they have been prety good, though a touch slow. I decided not to use their one click install as I wanted to install directly onto http://jamesmorell.com and it appears that you have to use a subdomain to host with MT, and they did specify not to use www.
So having eventually dicovered that when setting up wordpress on mediatemple you have to change the wp-config.php file to include ‘DB_HOST’, ‘internal-db.xxxxxx.gridserver.com’); where db.xxxxxx is the name of your slice on the server – it’s found under global settings in manage databases. So on MediaTemple you are one of the 1% of people who need to change from localhost…
Next issue: It actually appears that the htaccess file is screwed, and that I’m currently posting into thin air. Gah!
Tags: htaccess, mediatemple, SEO, Wordpress
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I don’t know If I said it already but …Great site…keep up the good work.
I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks, 
A definite great read….