Infinite redirect loop trying to go to anything but the front page

Help. I've spent the last several - five - hours just trying to get my dev environment working. In Drupal 6 (which i have to do something on to bail Dan out, who is incapacitated with pain) it always goes to the front page. Which makes working on a site difficult. Drupal 7 works. Any thoughts?

2:50
oh goddamn bloody hell shoot me in the face

it was using the .htaccess from agaric rather than a clean d6

not that just committing a .htaccess would seem to be an out of the question for this project, which would have saved me all that pain

thought it was the new drubuntu setup. so much wasted time

apache configuration every page home page
Drupal Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

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redirecting
only front page works

infinite redirects?

The front page looks great. Going to any other page causes the error.

Set:

$base_url = 'http://anjali.localhost'; // NO trailing slash!

not the problem.

This time, &**#&Y(#%&* Global Redirect (globalredirect) was the problem.

Someone else reported the same problem, but in Drupal 7: http://drupal.org/node/706986

For the problems that typically cause this: http://drupal.org/node/378182