---
title: Installing Xperience from the command line
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/installation/system-requirements.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can install Xperience from the command line without any user interface and user interaction involved. The command line installation also allows you to modify an existing instance and add or remove components. You need to prepare a configuration XML file and execute a command from the command line with this XML file as a parameter.

The main purpose of the command line installation is the possibility of automated installation and modification of Xperience.

The command line installation is capable of fully substituting the manual installation procedure, and can include the following components:

- the program files
- new web projects and registration of the projects as applications in IIS
- the new database on your SQL server
- sample websites

### Command line installation procedure

1. Create an XML configuration file during the custom installation process using the **Save XML configuration** link. This allows you to set all options in the Installer UI and generate a matching XML configuration file.

   - You can also create the XML file manually according to the [specifications](https://docs.kentico.com/13/installation/installing-xperience-from-the-command-line/command-line-installation-xml-configuration.md).
2. Move the XML file to the folder containing Kentico Xperience Installer (Xperience.exe).
3. Execute a command with the **Xperience.exe .xml** syntax in the folder:

   ```powershell

   Xperience_13_0.exe InstallationProfile.xml

   ```

The installation is executed according to the configuration in the XML file.

> **Note:** **The log file**
>
> If the command line Installation crashes without explanation, try searching for the log file in the default locations: _C:\Program Files (x86)\Kentico\13.0\\_ or the Installer folder.