Installing Drupal

Hi,

I set up a basic Drupal site the best part of ten years ago. It was just for my own use, basically as a front end for a few catalogue type databases. I updated the page a little along the way, but not too much as it was serving my purposes well. About 12 months ago, I rebuilt the server it was running on, but didn't worry too much about the drupal site at the time, as I wasn't really using it. I did however, back up the files and the mysql db.

Drupal 8.2.7 install fails at 'verify requirements' stage:
"The minimum version of Apache needed to run Drupal without mod_rewrite enabled is 2.2.16. See the enabling clean URLs page for more information on mod_rewrite."

It's not that cleanURLs won't work after an install -- the install will not proceed.

mod_rewrite *is* loaded: apachectl -M => rewrite_module (shared)

.htaccess exists, has AllowOverride All

Setup: CentOS6 (dedicated server), Apache 2.2.15, php 5.6.30

I've had this happen to me twice now...I use the Acquia Dev Desktop to install a new local Drupal site to learn on. 24 hours ( almost to the minute) later, Dev Desktop can't find the site and I get an error message saying there was a problem loading the page.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what is causing this? I'm on a mac and also have MAMP installed ( I use it for WordPress development).

Thanks,

Al

I've been having a real hard time installing Drupal using Drupal_project and composer. I've tried everything I know and can't figure out. I'm convinced either the instructions on this page are wrong/out of date, or the project has a bug.

The problem is that drupal never installs. When I run drupal_project, siteroot has these files and directories:
LICENSE README.md composer.json drush phpunit.xml.dist scripts

Expected result is that I would see additional directories for drupal, drupal-scaffold and maybe more. I do not see any of these things.

After following the instructions exactly clean URLs refuses to enable.

I have scoured the net in search of answers, but there are no solutions in sight. What would cause this to happen? Apache 2.4.

I downloaded and installed Drupal 8.2.1 on Ubuntu 16.0.4 server successfully. I can login as admin successfully. But all urls on the Drupal site do not open,

[http://server/drupal/admin/appearance] gives following error

The requested URL [/drupal/admin/appearance] was not found on this server.