Installing Drupal

New to drupal, so please bear with me. My client has given me their "Sites All" themes and libraries folder as well as their site-specific "themes", "files", "settings.php," a list of their modules, and a database sql dump. My job is to take this and get it up and running on a different server. The problem: When I load their sql data into a new database to use for drupal, I'm not able to view the drupal dashboard-like thing. When I use a clean database to start installation with drupal, I am able to view the dashboard properly, but loading their data gives me sql errors.

I have installed Drupal manually few weeks ago. At the moment I want to switch to composer installation, so I will be able to update Drupal by composer. After backuping site, I try to follow: https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/using-composer/using-composer-to-man...

Hi,

On the documentation (https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/install/step-2-install-dependencies-with-c...) under installing with composer it says: "This step is needed only if you have installed (or updated) the codebase using git."

This, to me suggests there is an alternative.

Can you please advise?

Cheers

Hi all,

Last week we tried to install Drupal by using the default template for Drupal 8 + MySql database in Azure (using drupal-nginx-fpm:0.1, Linux environment). However, we bumped up to an issue where after an X time Drupal isn't responding (502/503 error in browser) by the following error in the  logging. 

An AJAX HTTP error occurred.
HTTP Result Code: 200
Debugging information follows.
Path: /drupal8./core/install.php?rewrite=ok&langcode=pt-br&profile=standard&continue=1&id=1&op=do_nojs&op=do
StatusText: OK
ResponseText: 
Fatal error:  Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal8\core\lib\Drupal\Core\Database\Statement.php on line 59