How can I install and use website using drupal8 composer?

Question

I tried to run inststruction from the official website but I cannot understand why I cannot access my website and what do I need to fix? My website is in the directory /var/www/drupal8. The files are as follows:

I installed it using composer from here https://www.drupal.org/node/2718229

What do I need to do next? I want to access my website in the browser as I can in Drupal 7 just typing my local website name, for example drupal7.loc

Answer 1

Configure your VirtualHost entry to point to drupal8/web . The actual Drupal root directory is the web directory. That's where the index.php file, etc. are.

Also, your screenshot doesn't show it, but make sure you have a drupal8/web/core directory. It should be there if you ran the composer create-project command, but if not, you'll need to run composer install in the project root ( /drupal8 ) before your site will load.