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My home PHPMyAdmin was working fine a day or two ago. Now it's giving me a generic 500 Internal Server Error and suggesting I look at my server logs.

The Apache log contains these error messages: 

[Sun Feb 06 23:38:56 2011] [error] [client ::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.

And this is where I get stuck. Something is creating an infinite loop, but what can it be? I haven't done anything (that I can think of) to my setup since PHPMyAdmin was last working. Where would I follow the LimitInternalRecursion and LogLevel debug advice... an .htaccess file of some kind? I don't know where to find that.

Can anyone offer any pointers towards a solution or course of action?

EDIT: Thanks to Alvosu I've been able to get some information from the Rewrite log:

::1 - - [07/Feb/2011:09:19:48 --0800] [localhost/sid#10080d720][rid#1009854a8/initial] (3) [perdir /Library/WebServer/Documents/] strip per-dir prefix: /Library/WebServer/Documents/pma/ -> pma/
::1 - - [07/Feb/2011:09:19:48 --0800] [localhost/sid#10080d720][rid#1009854a8/initial] (3) [perdir /Library/WebServer/Documents/] applying pattern '^$' to uri 'pma/'
::1 - - [07/Feb/2011:09:19:48 --0800] [localhost/sid#10080d720][rid#1009854a8/initial] (3) [perdir /Library/WebServer/Documents/] strip per-dir prefix: /Library/WebServer/Documents/pma/ -> pma/
::1 - - [07/Feb/2011:09:19:48 --0800] [localhost/sid#10080d720][rid#1009854a8/initial] (3) [perdir /Library/WebServer/Documents/] applying pattern '(.*)' to uri 'pma/'
::1 - - [07/Feb/2011:09:19:48 --0800] [localhost/sid#10080d720][rid#1009854a8/initial] (2) [perdir /Library/WebServer/Documents/] rewrite 'pma/' -> 'app/webroot/pma/'
::1 - - [07/Feb/2011:09:19:48 --0800] [localhost/sid#10080d720][rid#1009854a8/initial] (3) [perdir /Library/WebServer/Documents/] add per-dir prefix: app/webroot/pma/ -> /Library/WebServer/Documents/app/webroot/pma/
::1 - - [07/Feb/2011:09:19:48 --0800] [localhost/sid#10080d720][rid#1009854a8/initial] (2) [perdir /Library/WebServer/Documents/] strip document_root prefix: /Library/WebServer/Documents/app/webroot/pma/ -> /app/webroot/pma/

Can anyone interpret that to understand the problem for me?

thesunneversets
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LimitInternalRecursion will not help. Add RewriteLog and RewriteLogLevel directives in virtual host or server config(/etc/apache2/.. or /etc/httpd/.. for Linux). Then look rewrite log.

alvosu
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  • Hmm... I've added those directives into the httpd.conf file with what I think are sensible values (it's Linux by the way, MacOSX), but they don't seem to be doing anything that I can tell. This is hard! – thesunneversets Feb 07 '11 at 08:10
  • Do you restart Apache? If you gave virtual host, you need added directives to virtual host definition. – alvosu Feb 07 '11 at 08:12
  • Good call! As you can tell I'm a bit of a newbie. I've upvoted you and edited my question with the contents of the Rewrite log - does that tell you what I need to go / where I need to go to kill this pma loop? – thesunneversets Feb 07 '11 at 17:32
  • Um, okay, today my Rewrite log had completely new contents, which enabled me to work out that the following lines in my htaccess were creating an infinite loop: RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L], RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]. Commenting them out seems to fix the problem. I have no idea where they came from or whether they're meant to do anything useful. But thanks for all your help in getting me on the right track! – thesunneversets Feb 10 '11 at 06:53