Getting started with typo3

Remarks#

TYPO3 is a PHP web content management system written, boasting extensions, advanced localization, scalability, and its open source nature. By making a distinction between the frontend and the backend, content visible to site visitors and administrators is innately abstracted. TYPO3 makes heavy use of extensions to supplement the core features with common, compartmentalized enhancements.

Versions#

Version	EOM	PHP version	MySQL version	Release Date
6.2 LTS	2017-04	5.3.7-5.6.x	5.1.x-5.6.x	2014-03-25
7 LTS	2018-11	5.5 - 7.1	5.5+	2015-11-10
8 LTS	2020-03	7.0 - 7.1	5.5+	2017-04-04

Classic installation 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. 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

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

TYPO3 CMS

TYPO3 is the leading enterprise content management system. It focuses on providing the features that professionals need to build and maintain large and/or complicated websites across multiple devices (mobile and desktop).

Features

Open Source
Multilingual
Frequent security updates - safety first
Manage as many websites as you want from a single installation
Highly extendable through a large library of free third-party extensions.
Expandable through its API based framework
Professional support by numerous hosting companies, web agencies and freelancers