Installing Drupal

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

Fistycuffs

I am attempting to install Drupal 8.4.0 on a client's hosting, which is a GoDaddy Classic Linux account. I launch the installer, and I get the following warnings;
 

Warnings found

PHP OPCODE CACHING Not enabled

PHP OPcode caching can improve your site's performance considerably. It is highly recommended to have OPcacheinstalled on your server.

LIMITED DATE RANGE Your PHP installation has a limited date range.

After many failed trials (php -r, ...) , the sanest way that worked to get Composer running was: 

# curl -s getcomposer.org/installer | php -d detect_unicode=Off -d allow_url_fopen=On
# mv ./composer.phar /usr/local/bin/
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
# composer

Hope this saves someone the hours I lost.

FreeBSD - 11.3
drupal8 version 8.4.1
php version 5.6.32 (cli)

When attempting to add content or perform any other function except signing in,I receive this error message:

The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.

This is from the apache24 error log:

FreeBSD-11.3 /64 bit

This is the first time I have tried installing Drupal8. I get as far as enering the database info, and them the setup crashes with this message. I have cleared out everything and retried several times with no lucK. I am about ready to give up. I have no idea what is wrong.