Installing Drupal

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.

There is a lot of information on using composer to install a drupal 8 website, using composer, for beginners and maybe even absolute beginners.

However, I am an absolute-absolute beginner and find myself running around in circles when trying to wrap my head around the basics to get started.

Some background:

I have been using drupal for a few sites since 2010, starting with D5 and am now on D7, for two sites for my business activities.

Hi,

This might be a silly question, but I try to get a D8 running on a shared host. Reading into it, I see that the best way seem to be

1. installing locally using composer
2. push to the production host

But would it not be that composer downloads the required libs based on the local environment|? If so, this environment might not be the exact same as the remote host. And the required libs are therefore different on the local and production side. Pushing the local to the production therefore might cause the website to break on the production.

HI 

I've copied cdn folder from Bootstrap and then I've renamed and edited all files  according to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLxqM6djArM

I changed All Instance names 'THEMENAMES' to 'btrap3'

but I don't know why my subtheme does not appear on admin [Apearance] page!!

Before I had no problem to create a bootstrap subtheme.

I am Almost New!

what should I do ?

HI 

I've copied cdn folder from Bootstrap and then I've renamed and edited all files  according to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLxqM6djArM

I changed All Instance names 'THEMENAMES' to 'btrap3'

but I don't know why my subtheme does not appear on admin [Apearance] page!!

Before I had no problem to create a bootstrap subtheme.

I am Almost New!

what should I do?