[TYPO3-linux] Install issue I can't get fixed

[Wuergler Robert]

Guy Mullens wrote:
> Hi!
>  
> Sorry to bother you guys, but I really need some help here. I'm a first 
> time user, and I can't get the cms to install right. Have extracted 
> typo3_src-3.8.1.tar.gz and dummy-3.8.1.tar.gz to the same dir. Then did
>  
> chgrp -R mygroup typo3_src-3.8.1/correctdir/ and chmod -R g+w,o-rwx 
> typo3_src-3.8.1/correctdir/
>  
> but he tells me the files don't exist... and it's true, because that 
> path doesn't exist. It exists in 
> /home/sources/sources.nl/html/cms/dummy-3.8.1/... but not in 
> /home/sources/sources.nl/html/cms/typo3_src-3.8.1, where the install.txt 
> file tells me they should be in.
>  
> Okay, maybe this is too dumb a question to ask, but I really don't know 
> what I must do...
>  
> Hope you can help out.
>  
> Cheers,
> Guy

But aren't you just talking about the wrong untared file?
Well, do we agree that basically those steps you would go - I hope I 
mention them all and correctly, be sure to check, use your correct paths 
accordingly:

1.
a) Untar uploaded files, I'd suggest best from "root directory" (in your 
case /home/sources/sources.nl/html/?):
tar xzvf typo3_src-3.8.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf dummy-3.8.1.tar.gz

b) I would usually prefer moving the untared content of 
dummy-3.8.1.tar.gz to the server "root directory" like in your case 
probably /home/sources/sources.nl/html/ (?)

2. Symlink typo3 source
ln -s ./typo3_src-3.8.1 typo3_src

3. Symlinks other directories
ln -s ./typo3_src/tslib/ tslib
ln -s ./typo3_src/t3lib/ t3lib
ln -s ./typo3_src/typo3/ typo3

4. Symlinks other ...
ln -s tslib/media/ media
ln -s tslib/showpic.php showpic.php
ln -s tslib/index_ts.php index.php

5.chmod: if done as above (dummy is in "root directory"), you would have 
to set chmod 755 for at least the directories:
typo3temp/
typo3/temp/
typo3conf/
uploads/
fileadmin/
and the file typo3conf/localconf.php

Thus I don't see why you would chmod in typo3_src .... But if you did 
not move the files incl. the directories typo3temp, typo3conf, uploads, 
fileadmin out of dummy-3.8.1 to the server root directory, then you 
would chmod there accordingly.

There was indeed a fairly good, though not very new, tutorial. I guess 
it should or will be again here
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/installation/

Robert