Depending on the operating system we are using, there are different processes for installing a development platform on our machine. We can either run an Installer package that will install Apache, MySQL, and PHP, along with TYPO3 (there are installers available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux), or we can install each of these components separately.
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The software included in the installer packages may be out of date. You should periodically check for updates to Apache, PHP, and MySQL to see if there have been further releases that fix any known bugs or security problems.
The Windows installer will install everything that we need to get started. Firstly, we need to download a copy from the TYPO3 website, http://typo3.org/download/installers/. The Version Target OS column shows the operating system for each installer. The installer we want is TYPO3 Winstaller as, at the time of writing, this installer had the most recent...