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Resolved by my host. I asked them what fixed it but didn’t receive an answer. I don’t think 2.2 was completely compatible with their setup and they either had to upgrade PHP, Zend or MySQL or they fixed the Fantastico installation.

I did a totally fresh, FTPed install not using Fantastico as a last resort yesterday. It still did not work. So it was on my host’s end.

Totally deleted everything in the folder.

Created a MySQL database and user with full privilages.

Uploaded all the files. Ran the install script. Noticed php errors right off.

Once installed, I couldn’t get past the login screen without numbers php errors.

Went back to the Fantastico installation. It’s up again but soon explodes with the same .htaccess: RewriteBase: argument is not a valid URL

Once I make any modifications.

Fresh install.

Absolutely no plug-ins installed at all.

It really revolves around the .htaccess file.

Everytime I get the 500 internal server errors. I delete the .htaccess file and I can get back in.

Mind you, there’s nothing different about the default that keeps getting created vs. the one that seemed to break the installation.

If I updated my permalinks..

It crashes.

If I go to my cPanel and delete the .htaccess file that is created by default.

It works.

But if I update the permalinks again, it crashes.

This is .htaccess file that keeps getting created every time I delete it.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase Array/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . Array/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress