I am trying to install drupal6 on my localhost and the installation does not complete. it gets stuck in after creating the database tables.
It redirects to http://localhost/sie/install.php?locale=en&profile=default&op=start&id=105 and gives the below error.
In Firefox
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.
In Chrome
This webpage has a redirect loop
I have tried enabling the cookies/adding localhost as an exception. please help me with this.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
The problem was with my mysql configuration, I had given autocommit=0 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to make a huge datafile load faster then I forgot about it.
Because autocommit wouldnt happen the drupal install script would pile up all the transactions and cause a redirect loop.
When I commented the autocommit=0 line the problem went away.