Installing Drupal

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

Hey there! I have a question. So basically I am trying to transfer my drupal website hosted on an FTP server to my local machine. But whenever I run my local server and open my drupal website it goes to the installation like if the website was totally new!

Any idea why it's doing it?

Thanks. :o

When downloading the latest (ZIP) release of drupal-8.6.13 the zip file does not finish downloading on some browsers (chrome) and is very slow to open and extract the archive.  Perhaps there was an issue with this build or with building this file?  Does not seem to occur with the tar file.

drupal-8.6.13.zip

Issue appears to occur on multiple devices and on multiple networks.