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2.1 Requirements

• PHP 5.3.3 or newer (but not PHP 6)
  • Modules: mbstring, pdo_sqlite
  • Configuration: magic_quotes_gpc = off
• Apache
  • Apache modules: mod_rewrite
  • Apache configuration: AllowOverride FileInfo

# If you don’t have running setup for this I would recommend xampp => http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

# I’m for example just had to update to the latest version which comes with PHP 5.3.5

2.2 Getting TYPO3 Phoenix Files

2.2.1 Git

# you need an installed git for this – I would recommend cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/)

# an alternative is msysgit (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/)

Go to your htdocs directory (in my case D:/www) and execute the following commands:

git clone --recursive git://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v5/Distributions/Base.git TYPO3v5
cd TYPO3v5
git submodule foreach 'git checkout master; git pull'

2.2.2 Bash Files (Windows only)

Furthermore you need the two bat files for Windows – you get them here
http://forge.typo3.org/issues/show/4426
or as direct link as
http://forge.typo3.org/attachments/17838/flow3.bat
http://forge.typo3.org/attachments/17839/flow3_dev.bat

you need to place these two bat files into the TYPO3v5 folder and modify the “php” line… in my case it was
- SET PHP=php.exe
+ SET PHP=D:/Applications/xampp/php/php.exe -c D:/Applications/xampp/php/php.ini

2.2.3 Symlinks (Windows only)

# in order to use Symlinks with Windows you need the Link Shell Extension (http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html)

You need to replace the two textfile flow3 and flow3_dev with real symlinks

flow3 => Packages/Framework/FLOW3/Scripts/flow3
flow3_dev => Packages/Framework/FLOW3/Scripts/flow3_dev

# I just deleted the two files and created the symbolic links like in the screenshot

2.3. Installation of TYPO3 Phoenix

Finally as you got all the needed files in the right places you can actually install TYPO3 Phoenix.

# If at any point you changed some settings but it won’t take them try clearing the cache with the following command inside the TYPO3v5 folder
flow3_dev flow3:cache:flush

# for me it looks like this
# D:\www\TYPO3v5>flow3_dev flow3:cache:flush
# Flushed all caches.

1) rename Configuration/Settings.yaml.example to Settings.yaml
# you can adjust your mysql settings here, but we just leave it to the default as we have those settings

2) uncomment the following two lines and adopt the path for the php Binary inside Settings.yaml
# core:
# phpBinaryPathAndFilename: 'D:/Applications/xampp/php/php.exe'

3) create Database “phoenix” for user root
# I used phpmyadmin for this; Doctrine will automatically create the tables for you

4) Exceute the following command inside the TYPO3v5 folder to import the demo page
flow3_dev typo3:site:import < Packages/Sites/PhoenixDemoTypo3Org/Resources/Private/Content/Sites.xml

5) Exceute the following command inside the TYPO3v5 folder to create an admin user with the password “password”
echo admin#password | flow3_dev typo3:setup:createAdministrator

# you can just skip this, as on the demo page you can simple create a demo use with one click

6) hit your Browser with http://localhost/TYPO3v5/Web/

As a Note: It is highly recommended to change the document root of the webserver to the Web subfolder of the distribution!
(we just skipped this step as it would need to modify the hosts file create a vhost etc… for a “real” page you should definitely do this)

Another Note: TYPO3v5 currently seems to have some problems with the backend if you install it in a subdirectory AND open it from the root page… so just open the BE from a subpage then it works just fine

2.3.1 keep in synch with git changes

Exceute the following commands inside the TYPO3v5 folder
git pull
git submodule foreach 'git checkout master; git pull'