Typo3 Installation and Upgrading

Copyright © by Kasper Skrhj <kasper@no spam pleasetypo3.com>
Published under the Open Content License available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

Table Of Contents

• 1. Installation and Upgrade of TYPO3
  • 1.1. The Install Tool
    • Aimed to end newbee agony...
    • Install Tool Password
• 2. Installing TYPO3 - Quick install
  • 2.1. Quick Install
    • 1-2-3
    • The Install Tool
    • Very Important: Changing Image Processing settings
• 3. Installing TYPO3 - In-depth
  • 3.1. Verbose Install
    • Which package and which fileformat?
  • 3.2. .zip distribution
    • TYPO3 distributed folders and documents
    • Site specific folders and documents
    • Custom folders?
    • Duplicates in the .zip distribution
    • Why duplicates?
  • 3.3. .tgz distribution
    • Internal symlinks
    • The folders
    • Using the source distribution effectively
    • The upgrade advantage
• 4. Upgrade TYPO3
  • 4.1. Philosophy
  • 4.2. Previews and new versions?
  • 4.3. Upgrade
    • 1: Backup
    • 2: Install the new source
    • 3: Compare and Update the database
    • CAUTION!
    • 4: Install the new static tables and description tables
    • 5: Clear cache-tables, typo3temp/ if needed, clear user-settings if needed.
    • 6: Remove “temp_CACHED_” files in typo3conf/ dir
    • 7: Check the Changelog
  • 4.4. How to update existing sites with “previews”?
    • Using CVS
    • The “superadmin.php” script
• 5. PHP Configuration
  • 5.1. safe_mode and open_basedir
    • Introduction
    • Experiences
    • External binaries requested by TYPO3
• 6. Trouble shooting
  • 6.1. Cached files in typo3temp/
  • 6.2. Possible problems with the cached files
    • Changing absolute paths to TYPO3
    • Changing the TYPO3 admin dir, “typo3/”
  • 6.3. PHP caches, extension classes etc.

This document is related to version 1.0.0 of the extension doc_inst_upgr.