Got it, thanks. Moved this to a Ponder question.

Here's my process thus far:

1. Configuring System User Accounts
   • Create 3 users, one for daemons, web server, and version control.
   • sudo visudo to give web server ad version control users the ability to sudo to daemon user.
   • Edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow ... FAIL???
2. Switch SSH to port 222 (this was actually super simple)
   • Edit /etc/services, search for ssh, change port references from 22 to 222. In System Preferences disabling and reenabling remote login under the sharing section causes the changes to take effect.
3. set phd.user and diffusion.ssh-user (simple).
4. Setting up the new sshd configuration. This is essentially the same. One thing to note is users will have to disable the new Integrity (rootless) feature of Mac OX El Capitan if they wish to use the recommended directories (i.e. /usr/libexec). Otherwise a different directory works fine.

I was using .htaccess (I noticed the linked article said to remove the leading '/'. I finally got things working. I had to move my rewrite rules to the .conf found in /Library/Server/Web/Config/sites/mysite.conf. This is specific to macs running the OS X Server application. Hopefully if anyone else is using this setup, they can benefit from this.

So I've determined it is a conflict between my .htaccess rewrite rules and some other apache/server configuration. I'm not exactly sure what's happening, but here is an update on the behavior.

That's how I originally had it configured, but now I'm using OS X Server. When installed it stops using the default /etc/apache2 configuration and instead uses /Library/Server/Web/Config/. I have a few other websites configured on my home vpn which are accessible via site1.mydomain.ddns.net and site2.mydomain.ddns.net. I have the phabricator alias record configured the same way.

I'm still not sure, but I cannot verify like I thought before it was related to the rewrite rules. My setup is on a device running OS X Server. I have the phabricator installation at phabricator.mydomain.ddns.net, but I am still continuing to see the "Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error."

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