Installing Drupal

Has anyone successfully installed the following on a web server for their Intranet which has no Internet access?

Windows 2012 R2
IIS
PHP7
MS SQL

Due to security guidelines, we can not put the server on the Internet. We have been using the following as a guide: http://www.drupalonwindows.com/en/blog/installing-drupal-8-windows 

hi 

I just installed the Drupal 8. Please tell me how to configure the email setting without using SMTP Authentication Support module. 

Here is a long blow by tortuous blow of installing drupal8.4.2 on Windows 10 using

Apache2.4

MariaDB 10.2.9

PHP 7

phpMyAdmin 4.7.5

Drupal 8.4.2

I installed it as a test site only and it was never intended to go live, however with some modification for security it could. It probably belongs as part of the installation documentation.

Following the instructions to set-up a multi-site configuration the ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS error appears while trying to access the INSTALL.PHP file.

Synopsys: After merging two sites to multi-site, I only can login to the (default) site.

To get my upgrade-tasks a bit more under control I decided to merge my two existing sites to a multi-site set-up.

I decided to move one site to the installation of the other. I first upgraded both to the same release (Drupal 7.56). Moving the databases to a single entity (by using a prefix) was easy and both sites were still working correctly (although on their own code base).

I installed drupal, everything worked. for some reason I deleted all the files. I deleted the database and resumed all installation steps. http: //localhost/drupal-7.56/install.php displays: