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Building Websites with TYPO3

By : Michael Peacock
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Building Websites with TYPO3

By: Michael Peacock

Overview of this book

<p>The book has 8 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of TYPO3 and by the end you can genuinely claim to have tamed the beast that is TYPO3.</p> <p class="TISBody">TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Restoring Your Site from a Backup


Now that we have learned how to back up our websites, we need to look into restoring them; otherwise the backups would be worthless.

Restoring the Files

There are two ways to restore your files: we can unzip them on our computer and import the home directory backup using our hosting control panel, or upload the ZIP file to our website and run a simple command to unpack the files.

Restoring the Files on Windows

We need to extract the files from our backup to our installation of TYPO3, which is at C:\Program Files\Typo3_4.0.1\Apache\typo3.

Restoring the Files on Linux or Linux Hosting

The easiest method for restoring our files is to restore a complete home directory backup that we have made on our hosting account.

Within the Backups section, we want the Restore a Home Directory Backup area, where we can browse for our backup file and then click on Upload.

This will then completely erase the content of the website, and replace it with that in the backup. It might...