Installation of Typo3 Part 3

So I’d installed the main typo3 backend and the dummy site but the quickstart site was only giving me problems and error messages; rather than trying to upgrade the quickstart site which seemed like a lot of trouble for just a fake site, I decided to follow these instructions from here (my comments are in italics):

You can try the dh_base extension, it’s not working out of the box, but
it gives you a starting base to setup your site.

go to the extensions manager under Admin tools,

In the settings, check the “Enable extensions without review”
The settings is found in the dropdown box at the top of the Extension Manager page

run the “retrieve/update”

Use the dropdown again to get to ‘Import Extensions’

import “dh_base”

It downloads all extensions needed, all you have to do is import them in
the backend.

After the installation, you get a new menu entry under WEB. (only if you
have no pages in your database, worst case drop the pages content)

set the values needed

Map the elements in templavoilà.

With that way you have a running instance with some already written
typoscript code.
I know the extension needs clean up, sorry for that.

Hope it helps.
Daniel

Well, whaddya know, there is no extension called dh_base, and this guy seems to be the only one who mentions it on the whole internet apart from one page in French. This seems to be fairly typical of the Typo3 world, but I will find a way around it somehow.