Installing Drupal

Hey, never used drupal before - I've been trying to become acquainted with it over the past weeks by doing stuff on a test site and watching videos, reading up, etc.

Problem: I set up my drupal 7 site locally, imported my tables into the database and now the main url loads but no other urls resolve (not even /user) and the dashboard is completely gone.

What I've tried: I've tried truncating the cache tables in my database as found in one of the discussions here. It didn't work.

Details:

I downloaded and installed the Acquia Dev Desktop. I had been using 7.42 but specified 8.0.2 I used all the defaults and installation was normally but while it was creating the initial website I got this message:

So I'm setting up a new Drupal 7 installation but I'm getting the following error:

I am brand new to Drupal. So much so this is my first install. I have been working in wordpress for all my sites but I have a potential new client with a Drupal site. I figured it was time to become familiar.

I have setup my site http://drupal.shawnwright.net/ and things seem to go well. At the home page, when I click on any of the buttons, configuration, appearence, add content, etc, I get a 404 error.

Hi,

Failed to install Drupal 8, I am stuck Verify Requirement Review for Apache Version. I got the following message:-

"Due to the settings for ServerTokens in httpd.conf, it is impossible to accurately determine the version of Apache running on this server. The reported value is Apache, to run Drupal without mod_rewrite, a minimum version of 2.2.16 is needed."

When, I click continue anyway, installation crush. The Apache version used in our shared server is (2.2.29).