Installation & Setup

Installation with composer

TYPO3 can be solely installed with the PHP dependency manager composer. Composer has to be available on the server, then a TYPO3 project can be started by using the base distribution.

composer create-project typo3/cms-base-distribution .

This will pull the TYPO3 core from the git repository, download it to vendor/typo3/cms/ and create a folder called web/ that will be the document root of the project.

The base distribution contains nothing more than acomposer.json and a .gitignore file to get a project startet. These files could also be created by hand. The composer.json could look like this:

{
    "repositories": [
        { "type": "composer", "url": "https://composer.typo3.org/" }
    ],
    "name": "typo3/cms-base-distribution",
    "description" : "TYPO3 CMS Base Distribution",
    "license": "GPL-2.0+",
    "require": {
        "typo3/cms": "^7.6"
    },
    "extra": {
        "typo3/cms": {
            "cms-package-dir": "{$vendor-dir}/typo3/cms",
            "web-dir": "web"
        }
    }
}

When this file is created by hand the command composer update will also fetch all files needed for a TYPO3 project.

Further information can be found here: