Installing Drupal

Truble getting sites to load correclt after drupal 8 install.

Hi,

I have a project that is built using Drupal 7 running on Apache. I need to move it on a windows Server running IIS 7.5.

My server already have php installed. I currently have another project that is running which is using Laravel framework.

What I have done so far, is copied my "sites" folder from the lunix box into windows in the following directory

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Drupal

Then from IIS I converted my "Drupal" folder to application by right clicking on it and clicking "Convert To application"

I am trying to install Drupal on localhost MAMP as I cannot install it on my server or on a windows machine

I get the error:

In the past with Drupal 6 (I have skipped 7 so far), I ran various sites with a common codebase using the following structure:

sitename.com
  |
  |--cms (symbolic link to drupal directory)
  |
  |--Other stuff I might want on the site

i.e. in each site, there was a subdirectory called CMS that was actually a redirect to the base Drupal folder.

I liked doing things this way, as it let me (if required) install other stuff on the same domain without it messing with the main Drupal install.

I have installed Drupal 6 and 7 on Hostmonster previously without issue. I would like to install a Drupal 8.1.0 site but keep getting a blank screen when I navigate to the website in my browser. I think it has something to do with PHP but I don't know what to fix. Here are the error messages I get:

[29-Apr-2016 07:18:52] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING or '(' in /index.php on line 11

[29-Apr-2016 07:02:44] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /core/install.php on line 31

Hello Drupal Experts,