Installing Drupal

Hi,
I am new to Drupal (and building my own site). I have installed Drupal 8.2.5 at my hosting provider with Filezilla. When I access my site, you can't see any pictures (or colors) only text. In my previous installed version (which got lost because I forgot to back-up the database) my hosting provider commented out a few lines in .htaccess in the directory sites/default.
How can I do that myself? I tried downloading the file to my computer, altering it and try to upload, but I get an access denied error.
Thanks in advance,

Cheers Tom.

Hi,

I am a drupal 8 noob. It has been a long time since I have been here (since version 5/6 days). I am completely new to composer and have run into an issue I am sure is an easy one to get over, but for some reason.. I haven't had luck.

Let me say up front that installing the lightning distribution presents no issues if I go the Tarball route. 100% success.

So I've successfully managed to install Drupal 8 in a sub-directory. The problem is I haven't figured out how to correctly redirect /user to /sub-directory/user. Currently I get the following error:
Redirects to external URLs are not allowed by default, use \Drupal\Core\Routing\TrustedRedirectResponse for it.

There were several other topics that I found on this that recommended adjusting the trusted_host_patterns in settings.php, but I have already done that (prior to noticing the error).

Help me please. When you install drupal-8.2.5 such a mistake at step 'Install site'

In order to run the following composer utility command to install Drupal 8, it is necessary to increase available PHP memory to nearly 1GB of memory!!!!!

composer create-project drupalcommerce/project-base mysitedir --stability dev

A project I am working on is being migrated to a new infrastructure. We are currently set up using the Drupal Docs recommended Linux->MariaDB setup with no problems. However, due to business needs, we are needed to migrate, and the only place to go is to a SQL Server database.

Although it is a migration, I started with just Drupal 7.53 Core to install the database.

My first piece of documentation is http://www.easysoft.com/support/kb/kb01071.html.