title: Why do some of my pages return 500s on my XAMPP server?
body: <p>I cannot figure out what the  hell is going on for the life of me. </p>
  
  <p>Normally when I want to run a site locally for testing purposes, I simply point my browser to:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://localhost/site_folder" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/site_folder</a></p>
  
  <p>This works on the majority of my pages but for some strange (and I mean really strange) reason, some folders give a 500 redirect error. </p>
  
  <p>I thought perhaps something was wrong with one of my scripts until I created a new folder and a basic php info page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  phpinfo();
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>my site comes up with: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Internal Server Error</p>
    
    <p>The server encountered an internal
    error or misconfiguration and was
    unable to complete your request.</p>
    
    <p>Please contact the server
    administrator, postmaster@localhost
    and inform them of the time the error
    occurred, and anything you might have
    done that may have caused the error.</p>
    
    <p>More information about this error may
    be available in the server error log.</p>
    
    <p>Additionally, a 500 Internal Server
    Error error was encountered while
    trying to use an ErrorDocument to
    handle the request.</p>
    
    <p>Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2
    mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l
    mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1
    mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1
    mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 Server at
    localhost Port 80</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I check my local error logs and get:</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>Nothing has changed on my configuration, no .htaccess files to mess with, other folders work. WTF is going on?</p>