Creating an empty Typo3/4.2 installation that supports UTF-8
I always use UTF-8 with my Typo3 installations even if it’s not needed in the first version of the Web site because translation is a requirement often arises at a later time.
The way I create my new, empty Typo3 4.2 installation that fully supports UTF-8:
- Create the database with
CREATE DATABASE tt_new_site DEFAULT CHARSET ‘UTF-8’;
GRANT ALL ON tt_new_site.* TO ‘new_site’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’; - Unzip the dummy.zip from typo3.org into the new installation’s directory
- Create correct typo3_src symlink
- Set permissions correctly (I made a script for this)
- Create typo3conf/ENABLE_INSTALL_TOOL
- Do necessary Web server setup
- Go to http://new_site/
- Do not use the 1-2-3 setup, but go to the Install Tool directly
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