I used alot of different popular php written scripts for my webpages and over time and sometimes right away, im gettin a looping page problem. Like on xoops, it wont let me get to the admin page, and with other programs the sign-on page starts looping with i tried to sign into it. So i stopped using alot of the stuff that i wanted to use because of this looping problem me and others are having.

I was wondering if its possible that its a setting i got to change in my php.ini script to fix this problem? or maybe its the MySQL 5.0 thats causing problems?

This is what im working with:

MySQL 5.0
PHP 5
Windows XP SP2
Abyss Web Server X2 (v 2.0.0.20)
phpMyAdmin - 2.9.0.2

Not all my webpages have this problem though. Its weird because out of all the help i got nobody can seem to find the problem. I dont wanna degrade anything, but if i have to do that to get things to work correctly then i will.

And this isn't an firewall/anti-virus problem, as i unloaded both to make sure of that.

Thanks

I cleared my log file, cleared the cache, cookies and everything so that only the looping error shows up in the log when i try to get to my administrator page:

- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:24 -0700] "GET /xoops/admin.php HTTP/1.1" 200 1598 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/edituser.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:28 -0700] "GET /xoops/include/xoops.js HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/admin.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:28 -0700] "GET /xoops/xoops.css HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/admin.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:28 -0700] "GET /xoops/themes/default/style.css HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/admin.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:33 -0700] "POST /xoops/admin.php HTTP/1.1" 200 690 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/admin.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:33 -0700] "GET /xoops/themes/default/style.css HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/admin.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:35 -0700] "GET /xoops/admin.php HTTP/1.1" 200 1598 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:35 -0700] "GET /xoops/include/xoops.js HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/admin.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:35 -0700] "GET /xoops/xoops.css HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/admin.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
- - [28/Apr/2007:01:16:35 -0700] "GET /xoops/themes/default/style.css HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://24.23.32.36:1028/xoops/admin.php" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

looks like a css problem in the themes. (something i didnt touch yet)

I don't think it's php5 - I have had similar problems on a couple of sites I support. I have boiled it down to IE 7.0 and some problem with the way th browser renders. Firefox, Konqueror, and the rest work fine in the same instances. IE 7 fails regularly - I see the same looping you do. Not much help to you, as I have taken the long road to look at code myself - #OOPS# Micro$oft!

Yea but i was using the latest version of Firefox when this looping problem was happening, so i tried Internet Explorer and i get the same looping problem. I got some of my friends to try it out and it loops for them too. Im going to try different browsers. wont do any good if it happens to work on 1 of them since Firefox and Internet Explorer is the most common used browsers.