“too many redirects” error at end of install

**Newbie alert**

Moving site from MAMP to live website. Install with Duplicator apparently goes well until Step 4. When checking the site, browser gives a “too many redirects” error message.

There is another WP in progress, not live yet site on my webserver. Have opened a new empty directory to drop Duplicator archive and installer.php.

Have tried a few things (clearing browser cache and cookies, cancelling plugins transfer at Step 3) but to no avail. When trying to access the site pages, I get the WP language settings.

There is a difference in Server/Build server versions (5.5.57 to 5.6.35). Not able to work out if this is big enough a difference to create the issue.

Installer log errors are a mile long. Extract: (actual names were replaced by fantasy “cablingxyz” names), below.

Any help would be pure joy. Thanks!

PHP VERSION: 5.6.30-0+deb8u1 | SAPI: cgi-fcgi
PHP TIME LIMIT: [0] time limit restriction disabled
PHP MEMORY: 2048M | SUHOSIN: disabled
SERVER: Apache
DOC ROOT: /var/www/vhosts/Cablingxyz.com/httpdocs/Cabling18
DOC ROOT 755: true
LOG FILE 644: true
REQUEST URL: http://Cablingxyz.com/Cabling18/installer.php
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ARCHIVE EXTRACTION
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NAME: Cabling18Install_3851bd3f4258d37e6377170907142308_archive.zip
SIZE: 82.17MB
ZIP: Enabled (ZipArchive Support)

>>> START EXTRACTION:
ZipArchive Object
(
[status] => 0
[statusSys] => 0
[numFiles] => 11036
[filename] => /var/www/vhosts/Cablingxyz.com/httpdocs/Cabling18/Cabling18Install_3851bd3f4258d37e6377170907142308_archive.zip
[comment] =>
)
File timestamp is ‘Current’ mode: 2017-09-07 15:46:24
<<< EXTRACTION COMPLETE: true

WEB SERVER CONFIGURATION FILE RESET:
– Backup of .htaccess/web.config made to *.170907154624.orig
– Reset of .htaccess/web.config files

STEP-1 COMPLETE @ 03:46:24 – RUNTIME: 5.8349 sec.

********************************************************************************
* DUPLICATOR-LITE: INSTALL-LOG
* STEP-2 START @ 03:48:34
* NOTICE: Do NOT post to public sites or forums
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DATABASE ENVIRONMENT
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MYSQL VERSION: This Server: 5.5.57 — Build Server: 5.6.35
FILE SIZE: database.sql (11.13MB) – installer-data.sql (11.13MB)
TIMEOUT: 5000
MAXPACK: 16777216
SQLMODE: NOT_SET
NEW SQL FILE: [/var/www/vhosts/Cablingxyz.com/httpdocs/Cabling18/installer-data.sql]
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DATABASE RESULTS
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**ERROR** database error write ‘Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” – [sql=
CREATE TABLE wp_commentmeta (
meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL A…]
**ERROR** database error write ‘Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” – [sql=
CREATE TABLE wp_comments (
comment_ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL A…]
**ERROR** database error write ‘Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” – [sql=
CREATE TABLE wp_links
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/* INSERT TABLE DATA: wp_comments */
INSERT INTO wp_comments VALUES(“1″…]
**ERROR** database error write ‘Table ‘Cabling2018.wp_options’ doesn’t exist’ – [sql=
/* INSERT TABLE DATA: wp_options */
INSERT INTO wp_options VALUES(“1”, “…]
**ERROR** database error write ‘Table ‘Cabling2018.wp_options’ doesn’t exist’ – [sql=INSERT INTO wp_options VALUES(“2”, “home”, “http://localhost:8888/Cabling18…%5D
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**ERROR** database error write ‘Table ‘Cabling2018.wp_usermeta’ doesn’t exist’ – [sql=INSERT INTO wp_usermeta VALUES(“26”, “1”, “metaboxhidden_nav-menus”, “a:1…]
**ERROR** database error write ‘Table ‘Cabling2018.wp_users’ doesn’t exist’ – [sql=
/* INSERT TABLE DATA: wp_users */
INSERT INTO wp_users VALUES(“1”, “Loui…]
ERRORS FOUND: 3691
TABLES DROPPED: 7
QUERIES RAN: 127

wp_duplicator_packages: (1)
wp_revslider_css: (109)
wp_revslider_layer_animations: (0)
wp_revslider_navigations: (0)
wp_revslider_sliders: (1)
wp_revslider_slides: (5)
wp_revslider_static_slides: (1)

Removed ‘2’ cache/transient rows

CREATE/INSTALL RUNTIME: 5.8401 sec.
STEP-2 COMPLETE @ 03:48:41 – RUNTIME: 6.3357 sec.