How to modify the existing Prestashop in a new computer

[BCLightingUSA]

I have an existing prestashop, which has been running for a while. Unfortunately our technitian left our team. Now I plan to modify the existing prestashop from the start on my computer. 

 

My questions are:

1. how to download the prestashop to my local computer and copy the online existing prestashop files to local. (I have downloaded the Bitnami through http://blog.dh42.com/installing-prestashop-locally-bitnami/)

 

2. will my operation damage the existing online shop, considering that I can only download the 1.6 version and my existing shop is 1.5 version?

 

 

Thanks for your help!

[NemoPS]

You don't need any bitnami thing

 

Reach your hosting's control panel, make a full backup.

 

Install wamp, or xampp, then move the prestashop folder inside one of these software's www, or httpdocs folders.

 

At this point, grab your database sql from the full backup, reach http://localhost/phpmyadmin (or your local server address), create a new database with the same name and import the dump.

 

Not go to config/settings.inc.php, change the database user to root and remove password. You should be able to reach the back office. Navigate to SEO and urls, and change the base url to localhost, and the folder to the name of the folder where you put prestashop, based on the httpdocs/www of the local server

[BCLightingUSA]

You don't need any bitnami thing

 

Reach your hosting's control panel, make a full backup.

 

Install wamp, or xampp, then move the prestashop folder inside one of these software's www, or httpdocs folders.

 

At this point, grab your database sql from the full backup, reach http://localhost/phpmyadmin (or your local server address), create a new database with the same name and import the dump.

 

Not go to config/settings.inc.php, change the database user to root and remove password. You should be able to reach the back office. Navigate to SEO and urls, and change the base url to localhost, and the folder to the name of the folder where you put prestashop, based on the httpdocs/www of the local server

Sorry. I am totally a chick in Prestashop.

 

Can you give screenshots on each of these steps? I don't know how to backup from CP, how to "move the prestashop folder inside one of these software's www, or httpdocs folders.", and "grab your database sql from the full backup".

 

Thank you a lot!

 

 

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