dharmen99

Thanks, was writing this as you replied:

..so what i did was to create a new directory in my virtual host folder and put a new copy of WP3.21 in there, activated it and changed the permalinks- they worked I changed them from the default to numeric and it all reflects in the URL for the ‘hello world’ posts
Shall i still try with the original site?

Since I tried to activate multi site I have no access to the blog, I completed the 3 steps in the network admin activate network page and was invited to log in but I got the server error message then and from then on.

I was thinking MAMP would be doing that but I am a bit out of my depth here, so I don’t really know, I can say that In the MAMP Apache server screen, in the list of modules, is the ‘rewrite_module’ and its ticked.
Not sure thats enough info, is there any way I can check?

When i deleted the users from the database I deleted from the ‘users’ table only. I’ve looked again at the database and I’m guessing here, but looks like I should have made corresponding deletions from the ‘usermeta’ table, if this is the case, is there a simple way to put things right?