drupal 6 installation: redirect loop

Question

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>

Answer 1

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.