Installing Drupal

I don't know what's going on with Go Daddy's VPS and neither does Go Daddy but Drupal 8 throws a

"UNICODE LIBRARY ErrorMultibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.http_inputsetting. Please refer to the PHP mbstring documentation for more information."

I have done all the googling I can.

I am running php 5.5. 

I installed a varbase site and when I go to the url, it shows the directory structure instead of a home page.

www.cajunadvisor.com

Any help would be appreciated. 

I did a minimal Drupal installation and it doesn't have the article content type. I figured I would create it from scratch but I'm not entirely sure what the settings are and couldn't find that information anywhere. Anybody know at least the basics? Or screenshots of the fields/settings?

Thanks.  

I am installing Drupal 7.56 in my local environment. It encountered an error, but however am allowed to move forward for the installation; but am not able to configure my site entering user root/admin details like username, password, email, etc it gave me link 1 error.

After a while, tried to delete the database and files and restructured the host name in local; on second attempt it gave me the link 2 error.

I am trying to move a Drupal site from www.example.com to www.example2.com/subdir, i.e. changing the host and installing in a subdirectory of the new host.  I have moved the database to example2 using mysqldump and the files using rsync.  I haven't changed anything in the database or files (e.g.

Both the zip and the tar.gz files are corrupt and will not expand properly