Hi guys,
I write the steps I followed for clonating my online shop with prestashop 1.7.6 to my local machine (localhost).
What did I use?
- OS linux mint
- terminal shell command line and phpmyadmin
- SSH
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Download prestashop files from the live server
You can do this from FTP to any folder in your machine
I did it in /Downloads/clon-presta-new-folder/
(If you try to do it in /var/www/html you could have some permission problems...)
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Export database with default settings
Best way is from phpmyadmin: export
but if you need via SSH you can do it as follow:mysqldump -u dbusername -p dbname > /path/to/file/nameOfFileYouLike.sql -
Create localhost database with the same name
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Import database copy
from your machine, open the terminal and import it as:
mysql -u dbusername -p dbname < /path/to/file/file.sql -
Copy downloaded files into new location
copy from /Downloads/clon-presta-new-folder/ to /var/www/html/prestashopFolderName
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Change database_host, database_user and database_password in:
app/config/parameters.phpYou can open first your file from live shop to remember some data if you need
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In ps_configuration table from phpmyadmin:
Change PS_SHOP_DOMAIN to localhost
Change PS_SHOP_DOMAIN_SSL to localhost
Change PS_SSL_ENABLED to 0
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In ps_shop_url:
Change domain to localhost
Change domain_ssl to localhost
Change physical_uri to the PS location (mine is /prestashop/)
don't forget slash!
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Delete .htaccess from the root folder
better just rename it as: _,htaccess
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Disable and enable once again Friendly URLs in admin settings
Enter to your backoffice (BO) with your URL + adminMANYNUMBERSANDLETTERS (i.e mine: dntlgfmql6vhltxy)
After you enter, as I say, you have to change to NO and after that save. Do it again to YES and save.
This is very importat tyo do it.
Hope none have problems.
Happy coding 