Installing Drupal

How can I transfer a website that I have created on drupalgardens.org to a personal hosting?

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SELECT * FROM {commerce_flat_rate_service}; Array ( ) in commerce_flat_rate_commerce_shipping_service_info() (line 120 of C:\wamp\www\commerce_kickstart-7.x-2.0-rc2-core\profiles\commerce_kickstart\modules\contrib\commerce_flat_rate\commerce_flat_rate.module).

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\wamp\www\commerce_kickstart-7.x-2\includes\database\database.inc on line 2139
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0011 378080 {main}( ) ..\install.php:0
2 0.0056 844464 install_drupal( ) ..\install.php:26
3 0.6531 8795056 install_run_tasks( ) ..\install.core.inc:79
4 26.9426 17440312 install_run_task( ) ..\install.core.inc:341
5 29.2810 18214504 batch_process( ) ..\install.core.inc:445
6 29.3238 18216624 _batch_populate_queue( ) ..\form.inc:4462

I am new to Drupal and am at my wits end trying to get the OpenPublic to install on my Windows 2008 R2 Server. During the install process it keeps stoping during the Install Profile section and I get the following error message:

•Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADDR in openpublic_apps_servers_info() (line 84 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\profiles\openpublic\openpublic.profile).
•Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADDR in openpublic_apps_servers_info() (line 84 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\profiles\openpublic\openpublic.profile).
•Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADDR in openpublic_apps_servers_info() (line 84 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\profiles\openpublic\openpublic.profile).
•Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADDR in openpublic_apps_servers_info() (line 84 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\profiles\openpublic\openpublic.profile).
•Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADDR in openpublic_apps_servers_info() (line 84 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\profiles\openpublic\openpublic.profile).
•Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADDR in openpublic_apps_servers_info() (line 84 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\profiles\openpublic\openpublic.profile).
•Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADDR in openpublic_apps_servers_info() (line 84 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\profiles\openpublic\openpublic.profile).
•Notice: Undefined index: SERVER_ADDR in openpublic_apps_servers_info() (line 84 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\profiles\openpublic\openpublic.profile).

and I've never used Drupal before. I got the Apress book "Beginning Drupal 7" and have gone through installing XAMPP, downloading and decompressing drupal, moved droopal to the root directory folder, and created the settings.php file.

Now it is time to create the drupal database. The book tells me to "visit http://localhost/xampp page". I tried visiting it with my web browser but all i get is a page not found error. Am I misunderstanding something or doing something wrong?

I am having trouble completing the COD installation profile at
http://www.oxfordjam.org.uk/13/install.php?profile=cod

I get no browser reported errors and I'm getting "Premature end of script headers: php-script" but no other useful log information from the error logs.

Any ideas for troubleshooting welcome!