Installing Drupal

Hey all.

I know there's a bunch of post's with this error but none seem to pertain to my issue which is on install. I think it has to do with having created a sub-domain in cpanel but I'm not sure.

So, the version is 7.2.2. All I did was unzip the package and extract it to the root of the sub-domain. So, when I go to access the page it directs itself to install.php and then errors with the above.

I've checked all the perm's on the files and folders. Everything looks fine. Not sure where to begin.

After unpacking drupal7 zip, get one fold "drupal7-21" with all files in it. I install drupal in three ways.
1. Move all files but the fold into C:\apache2264\htdocs. Installing successfully with setting in httpd.conf
ServerRoot "C:/apache2264"
Listen 127.0.0.1:8081
...
ServerAdmin pmoh@mtahq.org
ServerName localhost:8081
DocumentRoot "C:/apache2264/htdocs"
...

Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny

I have a copy of Drupal project which I want to import to DAMP on a new computer. What should I do?

I tried to install dev desktop, but Apache web server stopped working when installing and it looks like I'm having a post installation error which says I should post here with my log files and

Problem running post-install step....

Strict Standards: Non-static method DOMDocument::loadHTML() should not be called statically in C:\Program Filex(x86)\acquia-drupal\common\setup\setup-php on line 2381

Strict Standards: Non-static method DOMDocument::loadHTML() should not be called statically in C:\Program Filex(x86)\acquia-drupal\common\setup\setup-php on line 2381
DrupalInstaller::run() Maximum number of calls made. Site may not be setup correctly.

Here is the line 2381 in setup.php

static public function asDom($content) {
if (strlen($content) == 0) {
return null;
}
$html = DOMDocument::loadHTML($content);
if (is_null($html)) {
acqThrow("Could not parse HTML at url " . $url);
}
return simplexml_import_dom($html);
}

I couldn't add/paste all of my piscript.log file but some pieces are here

[12:05:30] An error caught. Stopping servers.
[12:05:30] Stop MySQL
[12:05:30] MySQL pid:4428
[12:05:30] Exec:mysqladmin.exe --defaults-file="C:\Program Files (x86)\acquia-drupal\mysql\my.cnf" shutdown [cwd:C:\Program Files (x86)\acquia-drupal\mysql\bin]
[12:05:30] Exec result: 0
STDOUT:
STDERR:

I downloaded Drupal 8.x source code from git. To test the code I tried to install it to my localhost. When I run the install page it works fine up to Installation profile. After installing all 40 modules it gives page not found error. To be specific the page "http://localhost/drupal/core/install.php?langcode=en&profile=standard&id...". When I reload it goes to "configure site" as expected. Adding all the details required on that page when I click the submit button It again gives a page not found error for the page "http://localhost/drupal/core/install.php?langcode=en&profile=standard". But when I reload the page it goes to "Finished" page. When I click the "visit your new site" url it directs to the log in page(But not logged on as the user I created in the installation). By entering username and password in the relevant text fields and clicking the log in button It again gives a page not available error for the page "http://localhost/drupal/node?destination=node". When I reload it goes again to log in page.

I tried to install this several times, but every time same thing happens. I downloaded Drupal 7.21 (not from the git) and is installed normally.

I'm using
OS - Windows 7 ultimate
Server - wampserver 2.2
Apache version - 2.2.22
PHP version - 5.3.13
MySQL version - 5.5.24

http://drupal.org/localize seems to be hacked and now displays some garbage text. Can anyone revert that page back?