Drupal 8.x

I am a new user to Drupal (I have used Wordpress and other custom CMS in the past). I have just installed Drupal 8 on my localhost set-up on my home computer. Everything seems to have worked fine ... but, when I click on any of the links in the Admin toolbar I get a not found error.

So localhost/drupal/admin/content OR localhost/drupal/admin/structure etc. come up as not found.

When I look in my /public_html/drupal I don't see an admin folder created at all.

Is this something I can fix manually or am I going to have to do a clean install?

I'm planning on buying a book on drupal. I've looked on www.drupal.org/books. I'm tossing up between Learning Drupal 8 Nick Abbott et al, and Drupal 8 Development: Beginners Guide Neeraj et al. I have a programming background but am new to Drupal. Any opinions appreciated on these or other books, particularly from anyone who has these books.

I developed Chrome extension that is fingerprinting Drupal websites.

If you going to secure exact version of Drupal engine
then use free extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/drupal-validate-check-ver/lafmafacfnblkahhfflblanbdmpkdoid

If the version is determined then you neew to hide everything that can let extension know the version and hide it.
I will be very appreciated if you can leave your feedback.

My Drupal system 8.2.6
I made a couple content and I want to access direct by alias like

example.com/content_alias
But it will automatically redirect to example.com/index.php

So I want to directly access it by
Example.com/content_alias
Without visit homepage first

I have a production site, which has a good amount of content posted to it (Videos, Audio files, etc.) and I am creating a new site which will replace the existing one, but I want to have (at least some of) the content from the existing site, on the new site. I've got the content TYPES, and views, etc. that I wanted exported, but is there an easy way of exporting the actual content itself (and the descriptions, etc.), and importing it to the new site, rather than having to manually re-upload all of the content to the new site?

Hello,

Having trouble with the REST API.

I've tried to follow the directions in:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/restful-web-services-api/restful-web-s...