Great News! I've got everything up and running now.
It turned out to be a connection issue with the mysql database. For some reason, those blank pages didn't show any database connection errors which made this problem difficult to troubleshoot.
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Tried: http://localhost:8080/index.php/fuel/login
But it also gives me a blank page.
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Aug/2012:09:48:41 -0700] "GET /index.php/fuel/login HTTP/1.1" 200 -
I just tried the exact same setup of php, apache, and fuelcms on another co…
In my httpd.conf file, I have uncommented LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so and I checked the loaded modules using phpinfo()
I'm using the default .htaccess file that comes with the fuel zip package.