Installing Prestashop on your local machine tutorial

[Dh42]

Here is a tutorial about how to install Prestashop on your local machine Installing Prestashop on your local machine

[vekia]

now when someone here on forum will don't know how to install prestashop - i will always send this tut

 

good job!

[outblast]

Link not working

[outblast]

now it works

[cescociao]

I made all right but when i go to the browser to open "localhost/prestashop" there appears a site where i can't work on it, where am I wrong?

[Dh42]

Did you change the name of the admin directory and try to log into the admin localhost/prestashop/admindirectory

[cescociao]

how can i open now admin directory? sorry, it's my first time here and i'm trying to test prestashop before to pay for it, thanks to help me

[cescociao]

i just opened phpMyAdmin, is that right? but seems a little bit hard there for me to change what you said, can i know better the steps i need to do?

[cescociao]

how can i open the control panel to work on it? i see that on the demo but i don't know to open it to work on my website.

[cescociao]

ok, i named the folder admindirectory and now works, thanks a lot

[Dh42]

Sorry, I didn't get your msg's.

[cescociao]

I'm here again,

 

I have 3 questions.

 

1. I use to put my e-mail and pass to get access to the prestashop panel of my website, I use to do it on 2 different pc, but happens that appear 2 different web-sites, I put the same e-mail and password and i get 2 different site, so i can't continue my work using 2 different pc, is that normal? will it happen also when i start to use the open-source version to build my final web-site?

 

2. In the menu categories i tried to put "wine" and as sub-menu "red, white, rosè", when i open "wine", it appears a page that in the bottom shows all the sub-menu categories but on the top of the page it says "here are not products", i don't like that, i tried to take it off but seems impossible, how can i resolve it?

 

3. First i'll start with the italian version of the web-site, then i'll do it in english, when i try to put the english's version flag, that works and the site change language, but for sure i need to change language also to all informations i put there and not only the prestashop default, i can change language by myself but how can i do it? I need to find the way to control the same site but with 2 different languages, How that works?

 

Prestashop is really fantastic, only i need to learn how it works before to build my site and put it in internet, so i'm really glad you can help me to get my target, thanks a lot.

[Dh42]

1. I don't understand what you mean

 

2. You can find that in the product-list.tpl file

 

3. I don't know what you mean by controlling the langauge

 

Sorry I couldn't be of more help

[cescociao]

1. I mean that i use 2 pc, one at home and one at work, i enter from pc-home on the control panel of prestashop by my e-mail and password, so i enter on my panel and i work on it, then i go to use the pc-work and i use the same e-mail and password to enter on the control panel, i have access to it but what i see is a different site, i mean that i start to work on one pc and on the other one i can't see the work i done, is like to enter to another control panel of another site, but i use the same password and e-mail.

 

2. product-list.tpl file?????? how can i arrive to it?

 

3. i mean that i build my site in italian, then i want to do that also in english, i change language and prestashop do it on all site theme, but for sure didn't change all descriptions i put there in italian, so i need to translate also that, but i don't want to lose my italian site, i think there is a way to control both sites, one in italian and one in english or other languages separately, which is the process to arrive to do it?

[Dh42]

1. You are installing it on your local computer, the site is only accessible from your local computer.

 

2. It is in your prestashop/themes/theme name/ directory

 

3. Did you put the descriptions in in English too?

[cescociao]

1. do you mean I can use only one pc because all files are in that pc because i'm using the local machine version? when i'll get the open source version to build the site, could i control my work from different pc just using my e-mail and password or also in that case i should use only one pc?

 

2. prestashop/themes/theme name/directory doesn't exist on my pc, but I found: prestashop/themes/default/product-list.tpl, but for sure i can't open it, so what should i do after i got it?

 

3. If i put descriptions in english, then i'll delete those in italian, what i need is the site with both languages, i don't know how to get it, usually should be like to control 2 differente sites, one in english and one in italian, now i can control only one site and if i change language to it, that will be forever, i should be able to have only one site with 2 different languages to work on it, shouldn't be like that?

 

if i don't resolve these 3 problems it will be difficult to build my website, so please be patient to help me, thanks.

[cescociao]

?????

[cescociao]

I resolved the points 1 and 3, thanks as well

Now i have only the point 2 to resolve, because when i open a category where there are sub-categories, there appears " no products here" and that is so ugly, well, below that appear all sub-categories with all products, but on the top i have that description, and i don't like that, if somebody can help me to delete that i'll be glad.

[GoGoMo]

Hi I install XAMPP v1.8.1 Control Panel v3.1.0 3.1.0 on Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. Now I've created a database called Prestashop101 but I don't have Privileges in phpMyAdmin panel to create a new username and password for database. See image attachment. I have Apache and MySQL running. How do I install Prestashop v1.5.3.1 properly without a username and password for database I created in phpMyAdmin? Thanks appreciate guidance.

 

 

 

 

11:00:37 AM [main] Initializing Control Panel

11:00:37 AM [main] Windows Version: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit

11:00:37 AM [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.1

11:00:37 AM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.1.0 3.1.0 [ Compiled: September 20th 2012 ]

11:00:37 AM [main] Running with Administrator rights - good!

11:00:37 AM [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"

11:00:39 AM [main] Checking for prerequisites

11:00:54 AM [main] All prerequisites found

11:00:54 AM [main] Initializing Modules

11:00:54 AM [Apache] XAMPP Apache is already running on port 80

11:00:54 AM [Apache] XAMPP Apache is already running on port 443

11:00:54 AM [main] Starting Check-Timer

11:00:54 AM [main] Control Panel Ready

11:43:39 AM [mysql] Status change detected: running

12:45:54 PM [mysql] Attempting to stop MySQL (PID: 7736)

12:45:54 PM [mysql] Status change detected: stopped

12:45:56 PM [mysql] Attempting to start MySQL app...

12:45:59 PM [mysql] Status change detected: running

 

[GoGoMo]

Duplicate post.

Edited February 14, 2013 by GoGoMo (see edit history)

[PascalVG]

Gogomo,

In order to get to your database, PS needs your username and a password. When installing xamp, specifically when installing mySQL it probably asked you to add an administrator password (login name probably 'root'.)

 

Can you get into MySQL? (probably, as you created a database) Then just use this login name/password combi into Prestashop.

 

My 2 cents,

Pascal

[jaspenhof]

Is there a tutorial for installing PS on a Ubuntu machine?

Thanks

[thedrew55]

Great tutorial. I completed the installation, including the database setup, deleting the the install folder and renaming the admin folder.

 

When I load the address in my address bar (http://localhost:888...op/adminnancee/) and the screen just appears blank with no prompt for login, or error message. Thoughts?

 

P.S. Yes I know that link won't work for anyone since it goes to my local host. I just want to make sure there wasn't anything in the URL that I messed up.

Edited April 2, 2013 by thedrew55 (see edit history)

[stratus66]

Here is a tutorial about how to install Prestashop on your local machine Installing Prestashop on your local machine

Is there anyway to have install prestashop to my pc and replicate whatever I do on my pc to my real web site?

[Regallightinguk]

Thanks for the guide got everything up and Running..

 

Already have a shop running on another platform but want to now switch to presta shop... Can i develope the presta shop offline using this method.. And when finished and ready to go upload what i have developed offline to a web host and be running straight away..

 

Cheers

 

Brent.

Regal Lighting.

[benjamin utterback]

HI Regal Lighting,

 

Yes, you can build your shop locally first. However, it is a good idea to periodically test it on the live server that it will be hosted on. You don't want to move forward until you know that what you see locally is whats going to happen live.

[smackidea]

Hello,

I am wondering if i can upload directly (without passing the install procedure) after i have moddified a localhost version. And only change the database. I would want to this because i m having problems with installation on Ipage (php 5.2).

Thank you

[PascalVG]

Maybe first have a look here, so you can see what you need to change etc. (domain name etc as well)

http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/System+Administrator+Guide#SystemAdministratorGuide-MovingPrestaShop

 

Also check the requirements of PS. does your host comply to these?

http://doc.prestasho...calrequirements

 

You should be able to just copy the files and make the recommended changes. No fresh installation needed.

 

My 2 cents,

Pascal

[smackidea]

I thank you so much for the answer. Yes the hosts (Ipage) supports the requirements. I will make the changes and hope it will work.

Thank you again

[stratus66]

HI Regal Lighting,

 

Yes, you can build your shop locally first. However, it is a good idea to periodically test it on the live server that it will be hosted on. You don't want to move forward until you know that what you see locally is whats going to happen live.

 

Hello and thanks for your answer. Is any documentation of how to have install my prestashop locally in my laptop "non live environment" and when I am ok with the changes locally somehow to replicate these changes to my productive environment "live web site" ?

Thanks in advance

[Heinrich.M]

[sOLVED]

 

I had to understand what the error meant and could now hours later conlcude that we had a dublicate entry in our config.inc.php.

----------------------------------------------

Dear folks

 

 

I followed the admins guide on how to move the shop to a new server with the little detail that I moved to our pc. It is a Windows PC with the newest Xampp.

 

However I get an error when I try to call the local shop:

 

Notice: Constant _PS_DISPLAY_COMPATIBILITY_WARNING_ already defined in C:\xampp3\htdocs\prestalive\config\config.inc.php on line 41

 

Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user 'hmadmin'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in C:\xampp3\htdocs\prestalive\classes\MySQL.php on line 34

Link to database cannot be established.

 

Can somebody help me here?

Edited April 27, 2013 by Heinrich.M (see edit history)

[Carel]

SOLVED

 

 

 

Hi,

Everthing on local machine works well with Xampp, but there is one important thing that doesn't work for my upgrade. When I push the button in the backoffice to see my shop there is no shop at all, i got a white page with tekst from my shop (see attachement). What also is not working is live edit, the rest is working fine.

Edited May 12, 2013 by Carel (see edit history)

[vekia]

it looks like missing css files, are you sure that you configured ps_shop_url well?

[Carel]

Hi,

 

Can you tell me where to find it and change these settings you mean.

[vekia]

preferences -> SEO & urls

 

[Carel]

I changed the base URI and now I can see my shop. Now there is another problem. The connections with my products don't work.

When I click on the index or the pictures in my homepage the next screen is a 404 error page. Do you know what kind of problem this is? Thanks for helping me so far.

[Carel]

SOLVED

 

 

I just find out: Recompile templates if the files have been updated

 

Thxs

Edited May 12, 2013 by Carel (see edit history)

[Carel]

SOLVED (juse the right prep map not the one you put in Local, I am happy finally everything works fine)

 

 

 

 

 

I tried to upgrade 1.4.10 to 1.5.4 from local (xampp) to server. But from step 5 I don't understand the manual anymore.

 

Do I have to transfer the map install to the server (FTP) and run the- intall/update/update.php file? I tried this but it failed, (I got the massage 28). I changed my config settings from local to normal to acces my database. Buy the way, I didn't find this in the update manual.

 

Or do I first have to make a clean installation 1.5.4 and after this, upgrade the prestashop-prep files with the install/update/update.php?

Edited May 14, 2013 by Carel (see edit history)

[lilliputcorner]

Hi,

This is Anamul from Bangladesh. I am trying to install 1.5.4.1 to my Local PC. Every has gone very good , but once i am installing from Local host by (WAMP-2.2 ) in the installation Assistance its giving a error.

 

The details

Following steps gone through properly in Installation assistant .

- Choose Your Language

- Licence Agreement

- System Compatibiity

- Store information

But at last stage : Store Installation , it moves upto 23% and gives a error at Create default shop and languages error .

I have tried to solve in may option but i am stuck , Can you please help me .

 

thanks

Anamul

[ahmad_arief]

Hi,

This is Anamul from Bangladesh. I am trying to install 1.5.4.1 to my Local PC. Every has gone very good , but once i am installing from Local host by (WAMP-2.2 ) in the installation Assistance its giving a error.

 

The details

Following steps gone through properly in Installation assistant .

- Choose Your Language

- Licence Agreement

- System Compatibiity

- Store information

But at last stage : Store Installation , it moves upto 23% and gives a error at Create default shop and languages error .

I have tried to solve in may option but i am stuck , Can you please help me .

 

thanks

Anamul

 

look at my post... :-D

[vekia]

you're talking about this thread: http://www.prestasho...-and-languages/ ?

[lizajohn2014]

thanks for help newbies

[ravindraji]

I get this error when installing preastashop

 

Oops! Please correct the item(s) below, and then click "Refresh information" to test the compatibility of your new system.

• Recursive write permissions on files and folders:
• ~/log/
• ~/mails/
• ~/modules/
• ~/translations/
• ~/upload/

 

I already give  full access to preastashop folder..   in windows 7( xampp)  but when i removing read only check box  its appearing after i reopen the  preasta shop folder 

 

thanks for reading

Edited September 12, 2013 by ravindraji (see edit history)

[vekia]

while you're installing prestashop, you're logged as system administrator?

[ravindraji]

Yes  there is only one  user   system administrator.

[vekia]

ok so another question, in what HDD you have xampp installation? I've noticed that xampp sometimes has got problems with permissions, especially when it isn't installed on your OS drive.

 

moreover, it also sometimes doesn't work well when xampp is installed in program files directory. The best directory is root dir of main hard disc partition (where you've got OS)

 

"It works better when you install directly to C:\, rather than the Program Files directory."

 

[ravindraji]

Yes My Xampp folder is currently in c:\> drive  and   C:\xampp\htdocs\preastshop   is location for my preastashop

Edited September 13, 2013 by ravindraji (see edit history)

[vekia]

so everything looks well in this case now i'm totally lost

i found this interesting topic: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/195702-installation-local-xampp-error-recursive-write-permissions/

 

there is a post:

 

 

I used Batchmod, a program which is going to change the permission for you. Also make sure you know which permissions should be used on each files or folder, you can find a list somewhere but I can't remember where (you'll find it easily).
Good luck! 

[vekia]

 where am I wrong? 

 

with?

 

can you shed some light on your question please?

[huemulin]

No hay caso, le hemos dado 777 a los archivos y se queda pegada la instalación

[ps4423]

Would anyone be able to recommend a site developer in the N Hollywood\Van Nuys area in Los Angeles

 

I need to increase the learning curve and it would probably be good to have someone in the

 

local area.

 

PS4423

[MarcGICS]

Hi Folks,

 

Is there a guide or tutorial to help someone setup Prestashop from scratch? ie: not the physical install, but the setup required to get the software running and functional, including setup of logo's, email addresses, email templates etc.

 

Thanks

[vekia]

check official documentation, there is enough information to configure and run own prestashop store

http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/PrestaShop+1.5+documentation

[yourtoolcrib]

I have a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 connecting with 3 PCs by landline in my place.  I would like to create my store offline without an internet connection in order to have a backup data, locally test run and for virus threat safety reasons.  Then upload files to host's server that I rent the space with afterword.  The server I have run another program and store its data.  
What should be the best way for me to be able to do this?  The best server should be Apache Web server 1.3? I heard that IIS cannot use user friendly url function. Is that true?   I'm also confusing if my window server can run as Apache?

Edited December 19, 2013 by yourtoolcrib (see edit history)

[Retina Web]

Just made my mind to start adding Prestashop customization to my skill. Thanks for the tutorial on first step.

[Plus Size Divas]

Hey guys

I am a newbie but very interested in starting my online store with Prestashop. Am sorry I may take you back and forth but, I have been trying to follow this discussion with the hope of finding the tutorial for installing Prestashop but in vain. Could someone pleas re-post it??

Thanks

 

Anyway my biggest challenge is with uploading the files to Filezilla. Must I have a website to which to upload Prestashop???? Filezilla seems to need this information to continue i.e  Host, Username and Password  

 

Will greatly appreciate all your help and Its also a pleasure to meet and interact with all of you

 

Thanks again

[Cofhrey]

where am I wrong?  

[precreate]

I have installed prestashop 1.5 before with no problem on local machine, but with 1.6 I get an error that it cannot connect to a database. Here are my settings:
host: localhost
user: root
password: [root password], made sure it is correct

Any help would be appreciated

[vekia]

the same if you will use for example 127.0.0.1 as a database host?

[precreate]

Fixed it, looks there was a problem with "localhost" hostname on my local machine, some other local websites stopped working.

Using 127.0.0.1 fixed the problem, thanks!

[padel]

Thanks for the tutorial, it help me so much to understand how i can install im my computer

[mono1]

Here is a tutorial about how to install Prestashop on your local machine Installing Prestashop on your local machine

Hello Dh42.

 

I m having a problem moving Prestashop 1.5.6 from web to localhost for offline upgrade/development purposes. It gives redirection problems.

Will you please be so kind to take a look at my post here and share any thoughts yu might have?

 

Best regards,

[Longa]

Thx for this tutorial it was very usefull

[kimhoun]

Here is a tutorial about how to install Prestashop on your local machine Installing Prestashop on your local machine

good job!

[mainul2k]

I have installed PS on local machine at C:\xampp\htdocs and it's working well while I browse from localhost/....... . I have also created a database for using at local machine giving it a name like t_fashion. Now I have uploaded the customized site to my real hosting site at public_html folder. My hosting provider doesn't support a database name like t_fashion. Rather than it forces me to name my db_name as username_........ (username is fixed by them). So I have created a new database like username_tf and imported my previous db to here by using the phpmyadmin/operations/import.

 

Now, when I try to browse my shop it returns an error message "Link to database cannot be established: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2 "No such file or directory")". 

 

How can I resolve this problem?

 

One more thing. I have exported my previous db from C:\xampp\mysql\data\t_fashion to a file named t_fashion.sql first. Then imported this file from phpmyadmin. Is it the right process?

Edited August 17, 2014 by mainul2k (see edit history)

[vekia]

as far as i remember, xampp suggests to install server software on hdd partition other than "C:/"

it's because of specific privileges related to this partition in windows 7

perhaps that's the problem?

[marcelluseasley]

I have a box running linuxmint. I installed apache2, mysql, and php5. everything works good. (I tested phpinfo and the php config came up successfully, so I know it is set up correctly).

 

When I installed prestashop and when to http://localhost/install/, the page is blank. So tool at look at my apache error log and found this for each GET request:

 

[Thu Sep 11 11:14:39.626379 2014] [:error] [pid 13811] [client ::1:32936] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required '/var/www/config/defines.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/install/init.php on line 44

 

 

So I navigated to /var/www/install/init.php line 44

 

require_once(_PS_CORE_DIR_.'/config/defines.inc.php');

 

 

_PS_CORE_DIR is defined a few lines up as:

 

define('_PS_CORE_DIR_', realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/..'));

 

which sets _PS_CORE_DIR_ to /var/www

 

So /var/www/config/defines.inc.php should be "openable" in theory, since it is there.

 

Has anyone seen this issue? Could it be a permission issue?

[marcelluseasley]

I found the solution. The /var/www/ contents need to be owned by apache. The following commands resolved it:

 

cd /var/www/
chown -R www-data *
chgrp -R www-data *

[brunamary]

Wow, Its so simple... I have done...  Thanks for useful tutorial.

[roberta]

I'm trying to update my store 1.3 to 1.4.9 for Xamp but I'm having an error celery another. Now it seemed that I was able to update, in the last phase the following error appears:

"Database server is available but database was not found"

I've checked the setting.inc.php file and everything is okay. What can that be?

[raulj2000]

Hi.  I installed xampp locally on my windows 7 machine. 

 

I downloaded the Prestashop 1.6 installation, extracted the contents and placed the prestashop folder under htdocs.

 

when i go to localhost/prestashop or localhost/prestashop/install i get the following message:

 

Warning: require_once(C:\xampp\htdocs\prestashop/config/defines.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\prestashop\install\init.php on line 44

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'C:\xampp\htdocs\prestashop/config/defines.inc.php'

(include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\prestashop\install\init.php on line 44

 

What am I missing?

[raulj2000]

I deleted the files that I had downloaded and downloaded them again.

 

It worked the 2nd time.

[willycox28]

 

Thanks for sharing your views.

 

[Roger101]

Hi everyone

Could you please help me

I cannot install PS to my hosting cause of this mistake:

1. Create settings.inc file - done
2. Create database tables - done
3. Create default shop and languages -  An error occurred during installation...(Cannot install language "(Russian)"

How to solve?

Thanks

 

[bellini13]

Hi everyone

Could you please help me

I cannot install PS to my hosting cause of this mistake:

1. Create settings.inc file - done
2. Create database tables - done
3. Create default shop and languages -  An error occurred during installation...(Cannot install language "(Russian)"

123.jpg

How to solve?

Thanks

I suggest that you create a new topic, and not post this in a completely unrelated tutorial.  it will never get seen

[ubilli]

hi everyone. am new to prestashop and during my installation on my localhost i got to the part.

1. Install demonstration data

An error occurred during installation...

You can use the links on the left column to go back to the previous steps, or restart the installation process by clicking here.

so what do i do.

[pause4paws]

Do you have an updated link? I keep getting a 404 not found page.