Installing Drupal

Drupal noob here with some problmms.

Trying to export my first drupal website I have developed through Acquia Dev Desktop to my server.

I have exported the database from my local drupal site to the new database on the server, moved entire drupal folder to the site. But when I i go the site it's just blank. I only get a drupal favicon.

The settings.php filed stored on "sites/sitename.com" is like this (i changed the name of the folder also, before it was like sites/sitename.localhost):

I am attempting to import my site into Acquia Dev Desktop as described here:
http://drupal.forhumanists.org/book/importing-site-acquia-dev-desktop

It takes about two minutes, then the site is listed in Acquia. When I click 'Go To'... Chrome downloads a file. It is named "download" with no extension.

When I open that 550 byte file, it reads:

<?php

I'm trying to install the bitnami stack Xampp on a local server, Linux - Mint-12
I run into a brick wall when I get to the 'create database' part. As far as I can tell, I have Apache, MySql, etc. successfully installed with the right permissions. I've thought of uninstalling what I have and starting over OR trying to install phpmyadmin (with the wizard) and create the database with that. That method produces a blank screen (no error messages - just a blank screen).
Here is what I get using the first method:

Hi,

I am wondering if DRUPAL can run on VMWare virtualized machines. In other words, does DRUPAL support VMWare virtualization?
We are limited to using VMWare with Linux or Windows Servers, and therefore need to know if that is a possibility for the Web Servers hosting the DRUBAL instance.

If the support for VMWare is not official through drupal.org, has anybody outhere tried to run DRUPAL in a VMWare virtualized enviornment?

Any comments on this topic are much appreciated.

Thanks,
RM

Hello, I used to work with drupal 6 last two years. Now, I tried to install Drupal 7 for my new page, but I cannot.
I installed the XAAMP 1.8.3.
Then I activate all the items.
I make the drupal folder and copy files there.
I run drupal, aqnd put root, user and password.
Then appearme that error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\database\database.inc on line 2168

And then when I try to enter to drupal again, appearme that

Hi,

We had a drupal 7 site on our older server, due to some reasons we transferred our whole drupal website to new server, the specs summary details of older server were:
Drupal 7.22
DB System MySQL
DB System version 5.0.95
PHP 5.3.6
Web server Microsoft-IIS/7.0

Where as on new server we have below drupal site configurations:
Drupal 7.22
DB System MySQL
DB System version 5.0.95
PHP 5.3.28
Web server Microsoft-IIS/7.5