I transferred the files to my site. I first used FTP, then i deleted & used ssh shell. I always get the same error from the home page, or the install page. I get the following error.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webadmin@kundenserver.de and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Any advice?

Open the file ".htaccess" in the root. Remove the line that start with php_flag.

This will fix your problem.

Sorry. Forgot to add that I had already done that too. Any other suggestions?

Sorry. Forgot to add that I had already done that too. Any other suggestions?

go to the server error log...your host can tell you where it lives somethng like var/logs/http/site.com

open it and see the last lines...post here

My guess...magic quotes

set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
ini_set('magic_quotes_sybase', 0);
in install/index.php

try:

//set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
//ini_set('magic_quotes_sybase', 0);

Magic quotes is already set to 0 as well. Thanks. I guess it's trusty ole Joomla.

Check whether your root dir is of permission 755