Installing Drupal

I had installed dupral 8 on XAMPP. When it is creating a database, an error due a 30 sec timeout exceded appears. 

Then, a login appears in my dupral/index.php. I insert the Dupral.org credentials but it does't work. May be because I'm not a "confirmed" user? What i have to do to become confiermed user? 

I'm setting up Drupal using Acquia Dev Desktop (on a mac) and when I get to 'Verify Requirements' it gives me this error message:

"PHP
5.5.38
Your PHP installation is too old. Drupal requires at least PHP 7.0.8. It is recommended to upgrade to PHP version 7.2 or higher for the best ongoing support. See PHP's version support documentation and the Drupal 8 PHP requirements handbook page for more information."

I'm running MAMP localhost on Mac,

In this documentation:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/local-server-setup/mac-os-developmen...

it says to use a COLLATION type of:
utf8_general_ci

when creating the Database.

In this documentation:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/install/step-3-create-a-database

I have used this cli to create my drupal strucuture:

composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev some-dir --stability dev --no-interaction

the cli confirms the process is complete and I can see the folder structure in my finder (inside MAMP)

I open the some-dir/web/ folder in web browser and receive the Drupal install prompts

All is OK, let's me enter database details, choose language, but next step triggers a page full of errors and does not allow me to proceed.

the errors in full is:

As apache.org says:

In general, you should only use .htaccess files when you don't have access to the main server configuration file.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/htaccess.html

Using the <directory> directive I moved the content of .htaccess to the respective .httpd.conf file for the webspace, as this file will be included by apache. So far, so good -- everything works as expected. 

I have been trying to migrate my Drupal 7 website from a different host to a new host. When i import my database through phpmyadmin I am facing strange errors of not recognisable mysql command.

Basically,  the error states that the export file from the previous phpmyadmin file has html code in it ; which the mysql does not understand. I scanned as much I can but could not find these html codes in the exported sql file.  i am going to make my database export SQL File available in google drive. Can somebody import this file into their mysql application