Attention
TYPO3 v7 has reached its end-of-life November 30th, 2018 and is not maintained by the community anymore. Looking for a stable version? Use the version switch on the top left.
There is no further ELTS support. It is recommended that you upgrade your project and use a supported version of TYPO3.
Get and Unpack the TYPO3 Package¶
Installing on a Unix server¶
Get the Source Package from https://typo3.org/download/ and upload this package to your web server. Put it one level above the document root. For this manual, we will use the
.tar.gz
file. (If you are not sure which package you should choose, read the section "Which Package and which File Format?" in the in-depth part of the manual). Use the shell to execute the according commands:/var/www/site/htdocs/$ cd .. /var/www/site/$ wget get.typo3.org/7.6 -O typo3_src-7.6.x.tar.gz
Unpack the
typo3_src-7.6.x.tar.gz
file on your web server:/var/www/site/$ tar -xzf typo3_src-7.6.x.tar.gz
Tip
You can also unpack the package on your local PC and then upload the unpacked contents. However, the package contains thousands of files, so if you're able to unzip or untar the package on the server, better do that!
Create these symlinks in your document root:
cd htdocs ln -s ../typo3_src-7.6.x typo3_src ln -s typo3_src/typo3 typo3 ln -s typo3_src/index.php index.php
Note
Some servers installations do not allow a symlink on a php file, especially on shared hosting environments. Here you should copy the index.php like this:
cp typo3_src/index.php index.php
Create an empty file
FIRST_INSTALL
to enable the Install Tool to set up and configure the instance in the next step:touch FIRST_INSTALL
In case you use the Apache web server, copy the
.htaccess
file to your document root:cp typo3_src/_.htaccess .htaccess
You end up with the following structure of files:
typo3_src-7.6.x/ htdocs/typo3_src -> ../typo3_src-7.6.x/ htdocs/typo3 -> typo3_src/typo3/ htdocs/index.php -> typo3_src/index.php htdocs/.htaccess
The advantage of this setup is that all files from the TYPO3 Source
package are kept together in the typo3_src-7.6.x
folder and
separated from other files of your installation. This allows you to
easily exchange this folder when a new patchlevel version of TYPO3 is
released.
Note
This setup allows the administrator to use the "Core Updater" feature in the Install Tool to later easily update the TYPO3 Source files.
Installing on a Windows server¶
Get the Source Package from https://typo3.org/download/ and extract it on your local PC. Use FTP, SFTP or similar to upload the contents of this package to your web server. Put them one level above the document root. For this manual, we will use the
.tar.gz
file. (If you are not sure which package you should choose, read the section "Which Package and which File Format?" in the in-depth part of the manual).Use the shell to create these symbolic links in your document root:
cd htdocs mklink /d typo3_src ..\typo3_src-7.6.x mklink /d typo3 typo3_src\typo3 mklink index.php typo3_src\index.php
In case you use the Apache web server, copy the
.htaccess
file to your document root:copy typo3_src/_.htaccess .htaccess
You end up with the following structure of files:
typo3_src-7.6.x/ htdocs/typo3_src -> ../typo3_src-7.6.x/ htdocs/typo3 -> typo3_src/typo3/ htdocs/index.php -> typo3_src/index.php htdocs/.htaccess