Extension installation¶

Install the site package you just created¶

From all extensions, including our site package extension, must be installed via Composer.

As a site package is created with site-specific files it is usually best to keep the files together in a version control system such as Git.

Create a directory for local version-controlled extensions at the root-level of your installation. The name is arbitrary, we use packages/ here.

Then edit your composer.json in the root of your installation directory to add the path as a local repository.

Add the following lines:

{
   "name": "myvendor/mysite",
   "repositories": [
      {
         "type": "path",
         "url": "./packages/*"
      }
   ],
   "require": {
      "typo3/cms-core": "^12.4",
      "..." : "..."
   },
   "..." : "..."
}

Move your extension folder site_package/ into the packages/ folder. Then require the extension via Composer using the package name defined in the site package extension's composer.json now located at packages/site_package/

{
   "name": "myvendor/site-package"
}

require it by:

composer require myvendor/site-package:@dev

Project file structure¶

Your project should now have the following structure: