[TYPO3-UG UK] Help - Special characters

[Edmund Huggett]

Hi Elisabetta,

You will need direct access (such as FTP or SSH) to the server that the 
typo3 files are on to edit localconf.php!

just to be clear, its a file you need to open with a text editor and not 
a web page you can view in a web browser.

When you have found the directory than contains all the Typo3 files (the 
webroot) you can find localconf.php inside the "typo3conf" directory, I 
would suggest you take a copy before you try to edit it just in case 
(and make sure your backups are working before you change anything with 
the install tool!).

Regards

Edmund


On 24/10/12 10:37, Elisabetta Spediacci wrote:
> Hi Edmund,
> thanks, it does sound like the solution, but my problem lies ahead. I don't
> know how to get to my localconf.php! Do I have to type an url or search for
> it in the column on the left? I tried, unsuccessfully, both ways.
> I confess, in dealing with settings I'm an absolute beginner!
> Elisabetta
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Edmund Huggett <edmund at xact.uk.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> if you insert the following line at the very _end_ of your localconf.php
>> your password will be reset to the default of joh316
>>
>> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['**installToolPassword'] = '**
>> bacb98acf97e0b6112b1d1b650b849**71';
>>
>> Of course, it goes without saying that you should change the install tool
>> password as soon as you have logged in.
>>
>> Hope this is what you needed
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Edmund
>>
>>
>> On 23/10/12 14:56, Elisabetta Spediacci wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Denyer,
>>> thank you very much for your reply.
>>>
>>> I tried to follow your advice, but I'm stuck again. This is the path I
>>> followed:
>>> User tools > User settings > Admin functions > Create install tool enable
>>> file
>>> Admin tools > Install
>>> At this point I got a page asking me for a password. I tried with the one
>>> I
>>> use to access the backend, but it didn't work.
>>>
>>> I know you cannot tell me my password :-), but maybe you can explain me
>>> what the following message, displayed in same page, means:
>>>
>>> "The Install Tool Password is *not* the admin password of TYPO3.
>>> The default password is *XXX**. Be sure to change it!
>>> If you don't know the current password, you can set a new one by setting
>>> the value of $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['**installToolPassword'] in
>>> typo3conf/localconf.php to the md5() hash value of the password you
>>> desire."
>>>
>>> *[this password did not work either]
>>>
>>> Looking forward to your answer!
>>> Elisabetta
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Denyer <denyer at sozu.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hey there,
>>>> Are you able to check whether the frontend rendering charset matches the
>>>> one set for the BE and the database? Look in the install tool for
>>>> "charset", as well as in your site template TS.
>>>>
>>>> Often a mis-match here will cause special characters to be stored and/or
>>>> displayed incorrectly.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Denyer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:17:03 +0100, Elisabetta Spediacci <
>>>> espediacci at elia-association.****org <espediacci at elia-association.**org<espediacci at elia-association.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Dear All,
>>>>
>>>>> I hope I'm in the right place and you can help me out.
>>>>> In certain pages of the website I take care of (news section) I cannot
>>>>> view
>>>>> correctly any special character, in particular the French letter ç. I
>>>>> tried
>>>>> in several ways (by typing it directly, by selecting it from the special
>>>>> character list of Typo3 and even by typing the associated html code),
>>>>> but
>>>>> all I got was a question mark.
>>>>> Have you ever bumped into the same problem? How did you solve it?
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
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