TYPO3 - Getting Started Tutorial

This guide introduces the core concepts of TYPO3 and provides an overview of the backend administrative interface. It is designed to help new users understand how TYPO3 works and how its main components fit together.

In addition, the guide includes instructions for preparing your host operating system and detailed steps for installing TYPO3.

Quickstart

From zero to a basic website in TYPO3 v14

Get started

Prerequisites

In this section we mention the prerequisites that you need before you start with this tutorial.

See the prerequisites

Concepts

Written for new users, this chapter introduces some of TYPO3's core concepts, including the backend - TYPO3's administration interface.

Learn about the basic concepts

Installation

The installation chapter provides detailed instructions on how to install TYPO3. It also contains information about how to deploy TYPO3 to a production environment.

Perform a TYPO3 Installation

First project setup

The chapter "first project setup" helps you to go through the next steps after the installation, such as creating a site record.

Setup TYPO3 after installation

Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot common issues that can occur during installation. The troubleshooting chapter covers both TYPO3 CMS and the host environment, including the web server, database and PHP.

Learn how to troubleshoot

Working with extensions

Discover how third-party extensions are installed and managed using Composer.

Install and manage extensions

Next steps

Next steps provides an overview of tasks that can be carried out once TYPO3 is installed, such as creating templates and adding content.

Learn how to add content and create templates

Glossary

Here you get an overview of important terms in TYPO3.

See the glossary

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