的Joomla！ 安装挂

I am having an odd issue (I think, as I have done about 3 hours digging throu SO and Google).

During The install of Joomla 3 it simply freezes. I am going to include a screenshot. my php.ini timeout is set to 300 and my max_execution is set to 300 as well. File uploads set to 1024 MB.

In addition to that I have chmod the /joomla directory to 777 (as a test) and still failing.

I have changed the to lines in libraries/joomla/filter/input.php

FROM:

$source = preg_replace('/&#(\d+);/me', "utf8_encode(chr(\\1))", $source); // decimal notation
$source = preg_replace('/&#x([a-f0-9]+);/mei', "utf8_encode(chr(0x\\1))", $source); // hex notation

TO:

$source = preg_replace_callback('/&#x(\d+);/mi', function($m){return utf8_encode(chr('0x'.$m[1]));}, $source); // decimal notation
$source = preg_replace_callback('/&#x([a-f0-9]+);/mi', function($m){return utf8_encode(chr('0x'.$m[1]));}, $source); // hex notation

I have also made these changes outlined here --> http://www.templatemonster.com/help/joomla-troubleshooter-how-to-deal-with-deprecated-function-iconv_set_encoding-error.html#gref due to a deprecated function issue.

In addition to that I have made sure that that /php5/sessions/ permissions settings are sufficient. I am truly stuck and not sure what other steps I can take.

It is also worth mentioning that there are zero errors in /var/log/apache2/error.log

This is a clean log after an Apache restart and installation run:

[Sat Dec 12 19:19:13.360609 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 29099] AH00163: Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Dec 12 19:19:13.360645 2015] [core:notice] [pid 29099] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'

This is the Overview of the install:

And this is where is freezes when I hit "Next":

Ideas?

PHP 5.6.11 APACHE 2.4.12 MySQL 5.6.27