Installation

This will teach you anything you need to know in order to install and maintain Contao.

The installation of Contao only takes a few minutes, thanks to the Contao Manager, given that the server is configured correctly and the minimum system requirements are fulfilled. However, in practice, it has been shown that there often can be some misconceptions and problems regarding the server configuration.

Thus this chapter describes all relevant methods of installation, gives detailed tips regarding the relocation of a Contao instance from your local development environment to the live web server and it shows how to update an existing installation.

• System requirements
• Install Contao - Quick start
• About Contao Manager
• Install Contao
• Update Contao
• Move Contao
• Install extensions
• Update extensions
• Uninstalling extensions
• Contao Install Tool

Guides

• Installing test versions
  Guide on how to install development versions and release candidates of Contao.
• DDEV
  With DDEV you can launch one or more Docker instances. XDEBUG, MariaDB and MySQL in different versions, PHP and much more.
• With Docker Devilbox
  With the Docker Devilbox one or more Contao installations can be installed and maintained locally.
• With Laragon
  With Laragon, one or more Contao installations can be installed and maintained locally.
• XAMPP
  Contao installation with XAMPP
• Local installations
  All you need to know about a local Contao installation.