How to check system requirements for pw?

[dev_panther]

I've built a website on my laptop, and I'm viewing it using MAMP, and it's all working fine. 

I've uploaded the project to a new server. After configuring the new DB and everything, I can view the main page of the site, but nothing more than that. I can't go to child-pages of the main page, and I can't go to the processwire control panel (by going to mysite/processwire in the browser). When I try any of those, I get 404 page not found error. 

For obvious reasons I suspect that the problem is in the server. How can I check if the server is suitable for running processwire? I didn't deal a lot with servers in the past, so the more specific you get (instead of "check if you have this", also say "check it by doing this and that"), the more grateful I'll be

Thanks. 

[LostKobrakai]

Try this one: http://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/troubleshooting-guide/page3

[elabx]

The .htaccess itself has a lot of commentaries that goes like: "If error 500, try commenting this line", it helped me a lot to figure out troubles like yours.