I've renamed the files, and I'm trying to run the install, but I just get caught in an endless reference loop.

The address bar looks like:
http://burkhead.org/typo3/install/typo3/install/typo3/install/typo3/install/typo3/install/typo3/install/typo3/install/typo3/install/typo3 and on, and on,

Now what?

Is there any kind of redirection in place in the server config that could be causing things to loop?

As part of the Starter Package, we do ship an .htaccess file that lives in the root directory of your site. I haven't seen it cause issues like this before, but it wouldn't hurt to rename it to .htaccess.bak to see if that changes anything.

Thanks,
Jeff

Interesting I renamed the .htaccess file and tried again. I got to

http://burkhead.org/typo3/install/index.php?mode=123&step=1&password=joh316

And a error message:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@burkheadumc.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

The error log has:

[Fri Aug 01 15:21:21 2008] [error] [client 98.16.35.65] File does not exist: /home/abumcweb/public_html/500.shtml, referer: http://burkhead.org/
[Fri Aug 01 15:21:21 2008] [error] [client 98.16.35.65] SoftException in Application.cpp:544: Directory "/home/abumcweb/public_html/typo3" is writeable by group, referer: http://burkhead.org/

Does this mean I need to change the subdirectories and files to be writeable? Which ones?

I think the problem is actually that the directories and files are in fact group writeable when the server has some security settings that says they should not be.

"777" permissions are what we suggest out of the box because they're most likely to work across web servers. In this case, it sounds like you may need to lower everything to "755" to remove group and world read permissions.

Hi

with the Fillezilla you could set the Permission of many Dir's and Files at once:
http://filezilla-project.org/

Shalom
Manfred

Hmmm, I'm more than a bit confused. Right now the four directories are set to 776, and I get a "Forbidden" error. I'll try 755 and see what happens.

Hmmm, I'm more than a bit confused. Right now the four directories are set to 776, and I get a "Forbidden" error. I'll try 755 and see what happens.

Well, that seemed to do it. On to the next problem.