Installing Drupal

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:

Hi 

I am not sure where to install Drupal 8 using composer. There seems to be no reliable information on this topic. On my server I have the structure var/www/html and I have read instances where people have installed Drupal in either var/www or in var/www/html or even a subdirectory of var/www/html. It isn't clear if there is an ideal place to install Drupal with Composer. 

Hi

I am about to install Drupal 8 using Composer and the Drupal-project as shown on github. My site will be a live site and I have now read that there is an issue whether Composer should be used on a live site. Should it be used on a live site or just for development?

Many thanks

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