[TYPO3-english] Unusual installing of TYPO3

Xavier Perseguers typo3 at perseguers.ch
Mon Jan 5 12:09:35 CET 2009


Hi,

maaboo wrote:
> Hi, and Happy New TYPO3 Year! :-)
> 
> I need to install TYPO3 on my local machine. The difficulties is that i need
> TYPO3 source installation as usual linux and site installation as external
> mount and all this under VMWare enviroment. E.g.:
> 
> [Inside VMWare]
> # Using CentOS 4.7 as guest OS
> 
> /var/www/html <---- typo3_src-4.2.3
> /var/www/html/localhost <---- see below

Use /etc/fstab to mount your Windows directory using CIFS (successor of 
samba)

> [Outside VMWare]
> #Using Windows as Host OS
> 
> W:\www\localhost <---- /localhost/
> 
> So, i can store my sites somewhere at windows drive and other files inside
> VMWare. Sure, it should work together! :-)

The other way around would be to install samba on your CentOS, to share 
your typo3_src and use a shared drive on Windows (that you may "mount" 
using a drive letter).

HTH

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en/tutorials/typo3.html


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