We can configure our TYPO3 installation by using the main Install Tool. There is a default password set on this system, and you maybe asked to enter it when accessing the tool. The default password is joh316.

The main Install Tool has ten sections of configuration options. Each of these sections is clearly documented within TYPO3.

For security reasons, we should change the Install Tool password. The option to do this is under section 10: About.

Once we have entered our new password into both boxes and clicked on Set new password, we are presented with a screen that tells us that the configuration file has been updated, asking us to Click to continue.

This password that we have just set is only for the Install Tool. It provides no access to the administration function of TYPO3.

Section 5: All Configuration, lists all of the configuration options available to us. There are a few particular options in here that will be of use to us. At the moment if we were to log in to the...