Web service enabling

[Snobs]

Can anyone answer this question:

My developer has created an API to connect my business database with my PS store, I have followed the instructions & everything went as it should, until it checked for the Apache module & the message that came back was: [Please activate the 'mod_auth_basic' Apache module to allow authentication of PrestaShop's webservice.]

I have checked with my hosting company & they have told me they don't run ['mod_auth_basic' Apache module] they run [From the Authentication modules, we can enable mod_auth_digest]

I am not a developer & have no idea what the differences is can anyone enlighten me?

Will this do the same thing or not???

[Klemart3D]

I'm developer but not sure of the response because it's more a system admin question. From official Apache doc this 2 modules are different:

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/mod/mod_auth_basic.html
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/mod/mod_auth_digest.html

As wrote: mod_auth_digest is an alternative to mod_auth_basic. However, this does not lead to a significant security advantage over basic authentication.

So if you need a "mod_auth_basic" and your hosting company can't enable it for you, you can change of hosting company.

[Snobs]

Thank you Klemart3D for taking the time to help me

I have checked with my service provider & spoke with a more experienced tech this time & he informed me that the service I require is a standard on their servers & it is already running! The error is apparently another PrestaShop bug, in 1.7.6, so I am going to have to try & do an upgrade to 1.7.6.3 & see if it that cures the error code when I try to activate PrestaShop webservice!

Are there any links that help a newbie to manually upgrade/update the prestashop version to the latest version?

[Klemart3D]

The best way to do an upgrade is to use Module 1-Click Upgrade : https://addons.prestashop.com/fr/migration-donnees-sauvegarde/5496-.html

You can find more information about it in devdocs : https://devdocs.prestashop.com/1.7/basics/keeping-up-to-date/upgrade/#1-click-upgrade-module

[Snobs]

Thank you Klemart3D for taking the time to help me with the upgrade,

You obviously didn't see my first posting on this forum, regarding one click upgrade, this not only crashed the PS Module manager it crashed the whole back office & my store, I had to do a rollback!

I had one person posted a fix but I am not competent enough to understand what they were saying & various people have said that didn't work for them either so as I am not a developer I don't feel confident to do what he suggests in case it goes wrong

OK I FINALLY got it to work.

When I log into the admin and click the 1-click  upgrade,  as with most people here the VERSION COMPARISON was stuck in a loop, and clicking the Upgrade button did nothing.

So still don't know what to do next??

 

Here's how I fixed it:

1. Go to  https://addons.prestashop.com/en/data-migration-backup/5496-.html  to download the latest version of PrestaShop's 1-Click Upgrade Module. (The page says version 1.8 but after you sign in and click the Download button, you'll see that it lets you download version 3.0.3 if you're trying to upgrade PS 1.7.1

2. Connect to your site using FTP, navigate to /modules and DELETE the entire autoupgrade folder

3. Unzip the autoupgrade 3.0.3 file you downloaded from Prestashop and inside you will find a folder named 'autoupgrade'. Upload this ENTIRE folder to your /modules directory.

4. When the upload is finished, confirm the folder permission is set to 755. Every file and folder inside should have these same permissions. If you're using FileZilla you can just right-click on the autoupgrade folder, select 'File Permissions'.  Change the permission to '755', then be sure to check the box 'Recurse into subdirectories' and be sure to select 'apply to all files and directories'

5. Next, while still connected with FileZilla, go up on level (to the root) and then drill down into your admin folder (it will begin with 'admin' followed by random letters and numbers)

6. Inside of your admin folder, you will find another 'autoupgrade' folder. You need to change the permissions on this folder using the SAME method described above.

7. Once you have updated the autoupgrade module and set the permissions on BOTH folders, log into your site and click 1-Click Upgrade, wait for the version comparison to finish and it should work.

8. logout admin if you are login