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Not only am I new to Drupal but I am brand new to making websites or any coding. The NGO I volunteer for was desperate and got me, so I appreciate your patience. We are about 80% sure we want to use Drupal 9/8 but want to make sure we can do it.
Aside from my lack of expertise, our main limitation is money and hardware. I only have two 2GHz 4GB RAM laptops with one standard ethernet connection. I have read what seemed to be the most similar posts but still am not clear on a few things. My specific questions:
I’m attempting a fresh installation of Drupal 9. My web host has PHP 7.3, but I do not have MariaDB 10.3; therefore, my understanding is that I’ll have to use the provided driver. Except, I’m not understanding where in the directory I need to copy the extracted files. The path laid out in the driver’s page does not match the directory structure I’m seeing in my Drupal 9. This is the error message I am currently seeing before attempting any installation of the driver:
This page isn’t working
example.com is currently unable to handle this request.
Installing Drupal 8.8.1 on Acquia Development Environment hosted on Windows . At finish of installation I get the white screen error "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later."
I headed for .htaccess which I thought could be the source and uncommented RewriteBase, but error persists. My Apache error log shows following :