Store won't load, high number of 302 responses

[gregfoss1]

Hello Everyone and thank you in advance for any and all  thoughts and suggestions that you may have.

I recently installed Magento 2 CE on a Ubuntu 14 LAMP server with the following details:  Apache 2.4.18, MySQL 5.7.12. PHP 7.0.8-4, Magento 2.1.0.   Magento was installed in the /var/www/html/magento directory.

For hosting, I created a domain on go daddy and for the sake of discussion, I will refer to it as www.domain.com

When trying to access the site, the storefront will never load.  In looking at the apache access log, I see the following entry endlessly repeated:

X3.X7.X1.X09 - - [18/Jul/2016:09:20:35 -0400] "GET /magento/?SID=3ovdmsks81hfnd1ru22uq76eh3 HTTP/1.1" 302 647 "http://www.mydomain.com/magento/?SID=3ovdmsks81hfnd1ru22uq76eh3" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0

The browser will ultimately time out.

Here are the relevant captures/excerpts for the Virtual Host, and .htaccess file located in "/var/www/html/magento"

Virtual Host:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.domain.com/magento
    ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento
        <Directory /var/www/html/magento/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log  combined
</VirtualHost>

 .htaccess excerpts

############################################

## GoDaddy specific options
Options -MultiViews

############################################

##default index file

DirectoryIndex index.php

<IfModule mod_php5.c>

############################################

## adjust memory limit

php_value memory_limit 768M
php_value max_execution_time 18000

############################################

## disable automatic session start

## before autoload was initialized

php_flag session.auto_start off

###########################################

## disable user agent verification to not break multiple image upload

php_flag suhosin.session.cryptua off

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_php7.c>

############################################

## adjust memory limit

php_value memory_limit 768M

php_value max_execution_time 18000

############################################

## disable automatic session start

## before autoload was initialized

php_flag session.auto_start off

###########################################

## disable user agent verification to not break multiple image upload

php_flag suhosin.session.cryptua off

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_security.c>

###########################################

## disable POST processing to not break multiple image upload

SecFilterEngine Off

SecFilterScanPOST Off

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

############################################

## workaround for Apache 2.4.6 CentOS build when working via ProxyPassMatch with HHVM (or any other)

## Please, set it on virtual host configuration level

## SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1

############################################

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

############################################

## enable rewrites

Options +FollowSymLinks

[robfico]

You have the DocumentRoot set to /magento, and Magento is also looking to use /magento in the URL, which won't work. Either remove /magento from the DocumentRoot, or switch Magento to not use /magento in the URL.