I am unable to do WordPress installations automatically on my local Apache for the past 4 weeks. The normal process on another machine goes standard – copy the WP install, run and the install script is executed. What I see here is either blank page, or Internal Server Error.
Even if I do correct manually my wp-config.php file with the settings and install, I receive the same error again. The last WP versions are distributed with no .htaccess so I expect no .htaccess to be required on each install for my local server.
Here there are my httpd.conf settings for the directory:
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
mod_rewrite is loaded here.
I was suspicious about my /etc/hosts as well, but we have the following:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
I had a look in my php.ini file (PHP is 5.3.3), no specific problems. However, my error log from apache states the following:
[error] [client 127.0.0.1] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
Any ideas?
It sounds like there is either a rewrite rule causing an endless rewrite loop or some other kind of alias loop in your config. Without seeing the rest of your apache config I wouldn’t be able to tell for sure.