Installing Drupal

Hello

New virtual container Ubuntu 20.04 with Webmin / Virtualmin.

PHP 7.4 and MySQL 8.

Install failed just after I accept "French" install.

Browser give a message (in french on my laptop) "The page is not correctly redirect".

When I look in the Apache2 logs :
 

I've been running around in circles for quite some time now with trying to figure out how to install Drupal 8/9 using all the various methods provided in the docs. And before you give me a direct link (RTFM) please know I have read almost every post regarding installing composer/drush and D8.

There is something I'm missing because I cannot for the life of me figure this out. I can install a D8/9 site manually without issue, but I want to learn how to be more efficient and as I understand it that means learning composer and/or drush.

I watched a tutorial for setting up Drupal 8 on a Mac (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOBArJn-tSQ) and the tutorial used MAMP.  Is MAMP required for using Drupal on Mac?

What am I doing wrong? I'm following these instructions from the section "Drupal 9 Quickstart" at https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/users/cli-usage/#drupal-9-quickstart:

After starting Docker.app on macOS:

cd ~/Sites
mkdir drupal9_docker
cd drupal9_docker
ddev config --project-type=drupal9 --docroot=web --create-docroot

That gives the first problem, as I see output:

All the documentation I've found about using the recommended-project template with composer to install Drupal (version 9) lacks detail and explanation.

I want to put my Drupal 9 site in ~/Sites/drupal9.

Exactly how do I do that with recommended-project via composer? Specifically:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the following ways to install a local Drupal development environment on a Mac (macOS Catalina)?

1. Under MAMP/MAMP Pro (with its built-in apache, mysql, php, phpmyadmin)
2. In Docker
3. With MacPorts installation of apache, mysql, phpmyadmin, php (including composer.phar) already installed

Among criteria would be: ease of additional installation steps; ease of adding modules not in core; ease of updating modules and Drupal itself; and responsiveness of Drupal; and size of installation.