[TYPO3] TYPO3 4.0

[Katja Lampela]

It seems that you are building the new site in a subfolder and you have 
a database for that. And the current site is static html in the root? 
This should work just fine; these two sites don't have anything to do 
with each other if the files are stored in different locations (typo3 
usually has fileadmin folder).

The only thing after releasing the new site - if both are installed in 
the root - is the index-file. In typ3 it is index.php and maybe your 
current site has index.htm(l) - the preferance which of them is loaded 
automatically is set for example in apache configuration httpd.conf file 
(though many servers jus prefer php-files anyway, I don't really know 
about this subject so much).

So, you can still have your current website after releasing the new 
typo3-site. You can link to it from the new site or you can just keep it 
there "hidden" for your own purposes. These two sites can't naturally 
have the same database without effect on each other, but this wouldn't 
be the case with the static html-site.

Updating is easy, just follow the guides and release/update notes. 
Usually it's: 1. backup 2. replace source files 3. compare and update 
database. But read the documentation and if questions or problems arise 
then the community will help you ;)

About subfolder installation and moving to the root: there's mostly no 
harm/bad effect or extra configuring (in my experience), just move the 
files. Maybe and probably realurl ext or features like that and some 
other stuff (ext with static filepaths from the root) don't work without 
separate configuration in both cases. But forexample realurl would be 
best to install anyway in the final stage of releasing the site.

Hope this helps.
Katja



rocky Ou wrote:
> Hey Group,
> 
> Our team are doing a website. The team members are not in an office. To 
> make it convenient for all of us contibute to it in parallel way we 
> installed the typo3 on the beta folder and work on it. This means when 
> the site is ready to launch we need to do most of the configure  again.
> A glance at TYPO3 4.0's release note, it seems it will be a huge release 
> for this kind of situation. Because we can have multiple workspaces.
> 
> Right now we have a website alive and want to come up with a new version 
> using typo3. I do not want to shut down the current version while we are 
> doing the new version. is the current version going to be thrown into 
> the back stage after install typo3 4.0 under main directory? If so, How 
> can I avoid it please?
> 
> Secondly, Most of our work has been done under typo3 3.8.1. Can any of 
> you give me an idea how to back the work up so that I can upgrade typo3 
> to version 4.0 please?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> 
> Rocky