Installing Drupal

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.

I have installed Drupal 8 on my example.com website. I want to install mediawiki on a subfolder called example.com/mediawiki. When I try to access example.com/mediawiki it is giving 403 forbidden error. I guess it is because of the rules in .htaccess . How can I fix it so that only example.com/mediawiki is accessible an Mediawiki can be safely installed there? Someone suggested me deleting .htaccess file. But that exposed whole Drupal files to external threats.

My university offer their server where we can put things online using our own domain (cs1.ucc.ie/~(studentid)) It has the folder public_html but how do I install Drupal on it?
Sorry if the question is fairly basic.
Would appreciate a response!
Thanks.

Hey Drupallers! I've been out of the game for a while, and never worked with Drupal 8. Things have changed a lot.

I've got a basic site that's working fine locally in MAMP under PHP 5.6, but when I moved it to the webhost (also on 5.6), I'm getting this error in my logs when attempting to load user/login:

This could be an old issue as I have seen in Google search. I am trying to install Drupal 8.2.5 on localhost, but the installation ends up with a fatal error at the very end, while all 40 operations seem have been completed. An error message shows:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in <root folder>\core\lib\Drupal\Core\Database\Statement.php on line 59